The multifaceted roles of copper in cancer: A trace metal element with dysregulated metabolism, but also a target or a bullet for therapy

P Lelièvre, L Sancey, JL Coll, A Deniaud, B Busser - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Copper is an essential element for human life. However, its redox activity
can be detrimental for the cell that developed highly coordinated pathways to chelate and …

Tumour targeting with radiometals for diagnosis and therapy

CF Ramogida, C Orvig - Chemical Communications, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Use of radiometals in nuclear oncology is a rapidly growing field and encompasses a broad
spectrum of radiotracers for imaging via PET (positron emission tomography) or SPECT …

Recent advances in radiometals for combined imaging and therapy in cancer

N Herrero Álvarez, D Bauer, J Hernández‐Gil… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nuclear medicine is defined as the use of radionuclides for diagnostic and therapeutic
applications. The imaging modalities positron emission tomography (PET) and single …

The chemical scaffold of theranostic radiopharmaceuticals: radionuclide, bifunctional chelator, and pharmacokinetics modifying linker

HA Holik, FM Ibrahim, AA Elaine, BD Putra, A Achmad… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals have been researched extensively in the last decade as
a result of the growing research interest in personalized medicine to improve diagnostic …

The emerging role of copper-64 radiopharmaceuticals as cancer theranostics

A Boschi, P Martini, E Janevik-Ivanovska, A Duatti - Drug Discovery Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Copper radionuclides for in vivo imaging of biological functions of copper
ions.•Copper-64 has suitable nuclear properties for cancer theranostics.•Radioactive copper …

Customizable Porphyrin Platform Enables Folate Receptor PET Imaging Using Copper-64

HA Houson, Z Wu, PLD Cao, JS Lindsey… - Molecular …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Folate receptors including folate receptor α (FRα) are overexpressed in up to 90% of ovarian
cancers. Ovarian cancers overexpressing FRα often exhibit high degrees of drug resistance …

Copper radiopharmaceuticals for theranostic applications

A Ahmedova, B Todorov, N Burdzhiev… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The growing advancement in nuclear medicine challenges researchers from several
different fields to integrate imaging and therapeutic modalities in a theranostic …

64Cu2+ Ions as PET Probe: An Emerging Paradigm in Molecular Imaging of Cancer

R Chakravarty, S Chakraborty, A Dash - Molecular pharmaceutics, 2016 - ACS Publications
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has transformed diagnostic nuclear medicine
and become an essential strategy in cancer management. With the expected growth of this …

H2CHXdedpa and H4CHXoctapaChiral Acyclic Chelating Ligands for 67/68Ga and 111In Radiopharmaceuticals

CF Ramogida, JF Cawthray, E Boros… - Inorganic …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The chiral acyclic ligands H2 CHX dedpa (N4O2), H2 CHX dedpa-bb (N4O2), and H4 CHX
octapa (N4O4)(CHX= cyclohexyl/cyclohexane, H2dedpa= 1, 2-[[6-carboxy-pyridin-2-yl] …

RGD‐based PET tracers for imaging receptor integrin αvβ3 expression

H Cai, PS Conti - Journal of Labelled Compounds and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of receptor integrin αvβ3 expression may play
a key role in the early detection of cancer and cardiovascular diseases, monitoring disease …