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C J Smith1, W A Volkert, T J Hoffman.
Abstract
The gastrin releasing peptide (GRP) receptor is becoming an increasingly attractive target for development of new radiolabeled peptides with diagnostic and therapeutic potential. The attractiveness of the GRP receptor as a target is based upon the functional expression of GRP receptors in several tumors of neuroendocrine origin including prostate, breast, and small cell lung cancer. This concise review outlines some of the efforts currently underway to develop new GRP receptor specific radiopharmaceuticals by employing a variety of radiometal chelation systems.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 14698790 DOI: 10.1016/s0969-8051(03)00116-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucl Med Biol ISSN: 0969-8051 Impact factor: 2.408