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SUBMITTER: Pratesi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5324734 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pratesi Alessandro A Ginanneschi Mauro M Lumini Marco M Papini Anna M AM Novellino Ettore E Brancaccio Diego D Carotenuto Alfonso A
Frontiers in chemistry 20170223
<i>In vivo</i> somatostatin receptor scintigraphy is a valuable method for the visualization of human endocrine tumors and their metastases. In fact, peptide ligands of somatostatin receptors (sst's) conjugated with chelating agents are in clinical use. We have recently developed octreotide dicarba-analogs, which show interesting binding profiles at sst's. In this context, it was mandatory to explore the possibility that our analogs could maintain their activity also upon conjugation with DOTA. ...[more]