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Zinc as an Imaging Biomarker of Prostate Cancer.


ABSTRACT: Zinc has long been the focus of many biological investigations because of its essential role in biology including a catalytic role in many enzymes, a structural role in the many zinc finger proteins, and a physiological role in many secretory cell processes. Divalent zinc is known to be highly abundant in healthy prostate tissues and lower in prostate cancer (PCa). Given the need for newer diagnostic methods for detection of prostate cancer, zinc-responsive probes of various types have been considered as imaging tools for detecting tissue levels of zinc. Among them, recent zinc-responsive MRI probes show great promise for non-invasive detection of zinc ion secretion from the prostate and other tissues in vivo. In this review, we summarize the need for new diagnostic tools and demonstrate how responsive zinc probes and MRI could satisfy this unmet need.

SUBMITTER: Lo ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6181238 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Zinc as an Imaging Biomarker of Prostate Cancer.

Lo Su-Tang ST   Martins André F AF   Jordan Veronica Clavijo VC   Sherry A Dean AD  

Israel journal of chemistry 20170731 9


Zinc has long been the focus of many biological investigations because of its essential role in biology including a catalytic role in many enzymes, a structural role in the many zinc finger proteins, and a physiological role in many secretory cell processes. Divalent zinc is known to be highly abundant in healthy prostate tissues and lower in prostate cancer (PCa). Given the need for newer diagnostic methods for detection of prostate cancer, zinc-responsive probes of various types have been cons  ...[more]

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