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J Kapuściński

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PubMed1995

Diagnostic value of 169Yb-cis-dichlorodimethionine platinum scintigraphy in patients with malignant lymphomas.

Ytterbium-169 (169Yb) cis-dichlorodimethionine platinum (169Yb-PtCl2Meth2) is a new agent of low toxicity with an affinity for neoplastic tumours. The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic value of 169Yb-PtCl2Meth2 scintigraphy in patients with malignant lymphomas. 169Yb-PtCl2Meth2 scintigraphy was performed in 67 patients with histologically proven malignant lymphoma. Liver, spleen, kidney and bone were among the normal tissues that showed uptake of the radiopharmaceutical. The compound is excreted in the main through the urinary tract. There was no significant activity in the bowels. For evaluation of the images, uptake of activity was scored according to a 5-point scale. In total, 888 sites were evaluated. The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of lymphoma detection for the body as a whole was 80, 89 and 87%, respectively. The best results were obtained for the head (sensitivity 91%, specificity 89%), neck (sensitivity 84%, specificity 90%) and chest (sensitivity 82%, specificity 84%). In the sub-diaphragmatic region, sensitivity and specificity were 76 and 84%, respectively. Scintigraphy with 169Yb-PtCl2Meth2 appears to be a sensitive, non-invasive procedure for the staging of malignant lymphomas. The results suggest that it is possible to monitor the therapy of malignant lymphoma by means of 169Yb-PtCl2Meth2 scanning.

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PubMed1995

Experimental toxic liver damage and hepatic plasma clearance of 99mTc-mebrofenin (iminodiacetate derivative). III. Chronic CCl4-induced liver damage with eventual cirrhosis in rabbits.

Chronic damage to liver parenchyma was induced in rabbits by the long-term administration of carbon tetrachloride. The animals were serially sacrificed 3, 6 and 9 months after the start of intoxication, and examined histopathologically. The biological response was qualitatively assessed from results of histological studies, and measured utilizing series of typical biochemical indices of liver damage, 99mTc-mebrofenin (an-IDA-derivative) plasma clearance by the liver, and quantified indices of uptake and organ transfer of the compound. It was found that the plasma clearance and transfer parameters show association with chronic liver damage. The reduction of plasma 99mTc-mebrofenin clearance in intoxicated rabbits was also associated with changes in the biochemical indices of liver function and damage.

Aniline Compounds↗
PubMed1993

Experimental toxic liver damage and hepatic plasma clearance of 99mTc-mebrofenin (iminodiacetate derivative). II. Recovery from the acute, CCl4-induced liver damage.

Liver parenchyma damage was induced in rabbits by the administration of carbon tetrachloride. The animals were serially sacrificed 3, 10, 17 and 31 days post intoxication and examined morphometrically for the extent of necrosis, steatosis and balloon degeneration of hepatocytes. Biochemical indices of the liver damage were studied as well as hepatic clearance of blood plasma from Tc-99m complex of an IDA derivative Tc99m complex (99mTc-mebrofenin--99mTc-MBF) and its uptake and liver transfer characterizing parameters. It was found that toxic effects of CCl4 were conspicuous up to 10 days after administration of carbon tetrachloride. In that period elevated activity of AspAT, ALAT, GGTP and elevated cholesterol and triglycerides were found in the plasma. As in the first paper of this series of works there has been a highly significant statistical association between the Tc-MBF plasma clearance, the uptake and liver transfer of the compound and parenchyma damage in the organ.

Aniline Compounds↗
PubMed1993

Experimental toxic liver damage and hepatic plasma clearance of 99mTc-mebrofenin (iminodiacetate derivative). I. Early, acute CCl4-induced liver damage in rabbits.

Liver damage was induced in rabbits by graded doses of carbon tetrachloride. The damage was assessed by means of quantitative morphometry using necrosis and steatosis of the parenchyma as end points. Biological response was measured utilizing a series of typical biochemical indices of liver damage as well as plasma clearance by the liver 99mTc-mebrofenin (an IDA derivative) and quantified indices of uptake and organ transfer of the compound. No correlation was found between the CCl4 dose and its effect (i.e. degree of necrosis and steatosis of liver). However, a very strong negative correlation was found between the degree of necrosis in individual animals and value of the clearance. The extent of the damage was positively correlated with liver transfer rate of 99mTc-MBF. Plasma activity of ALAT, TG, GGTP and AspAT were higher in the poisoned animals, however, only increments of activity of GGTP, ALAT and LDH showed statistically significant correlation with the individually assessed damage (necrosis).

Aniline Compounds↗
PubMed1986

Comparison in rabbits of chole-scintigraphic properties of several 99mTc-IDA derivatives.

Pathways and kinetics of excretion were compared to four 99mTc-IDA derivatives in healthy rabbits of both sexes. Assessment of differences between the compounds was based upon: plasma clearance, characteristics of time-activity curves measured scintigraphically over the liver (time of the peak Tmax; time for decline of activity to half the peak value-T50%), and hepatocytic mean transit time (MTT) as derived after deconvolution of the hepatic time-activity curve. Hepatocyte transit time was short and similar to 99mTc-complexes of Mebrofenin, 2,4-diethyl IDA (HEPIDA) and 3-iodo-2,6-diethylphenylcarbamoylmethyliminodiacetic acid (JODIDA); it was evidently longer for 99mTc-p-butyl-IDA (BIDA). 99mTc-HEPIDA displayed significant urinary elimination; the remaining three compounds were excreted practically completely via the biliary route. It is concluded that optimal parameters were displayed by 99mTc-Mebrofenin and 99mTc-JODIDA.

Aniline Compounds↗
PubMed1979

Interactions of 4', 6-diamidine-2-phenylindole with synthetic polynucleotides.

4', 6-Diamidine-2-phenylindole forms fluorescent complexes with synthetic DNA duplexes containing AT, AU and IC base pairs; no fluorescent complexes were observed with duplexes containing GC base pairs or with duplexes containing a single AT base pair sandwiched between GC pairs. The binding site size is one molecule of dye per 3 base pairs. The intrinsic binding constants are higher for alternating sequence duplexes than for the corresponding homopolymer pairs. With the exception of the four-stranded helical poly rI which exhibits considerable fluorescence enhancement upon binding of the ligand, none of the single- or multi- stranded polyribonucleotides and ribo-deoxyribonucleotide hybrid structures form fluorescent complexes with the dye. Poly rI is the only RNA which forms a DNA B-like structure (Arnott et al. (1974) Biochem. J. 141, 537). The B conformation of the helix and the absence of guanine appear to be the major determinants of the specificity of the fluorescent binding mode of the dye. Nonfluorescent interactions of the dye with polynucleotides are nonspecific; UV absorption and circular dichroic spectra demonstrate binding to synthetic single- and double-stranded DNA and RNA analogs, including those containing GC base pairs.

Amidines↗
PubMed1979

Selective staining by 4', 6-diamidine-2-phenylindole of nanogram quantities of DNA in the presence of RNA on gels.

4', 6-Diamidine-2-phenylindole.2HCl (DAPI) forms fluorescent complexes with double-stranded (ds) DNA but not with ds RNA as shown by fluorescence titration. The widely used dye ethidium bromide (EB) forms fluorescent complexes with both types of nucleic acids. Also, in contrast to EB, DAPI forms much weaker fluorescent complexes with single-stranded DNA than with ds DNA. These observations were utilized to develop staining procedures for the selective visualization of ds DNA on gels. The use of DAPI in addition to EB for staining makes possible the localization of ds DNA and other species of nucleic acids on a single gel.

DNA↗
PubMed1978

Fluorescent complexes of DNA with DAPI 4',6-diamidine-2-phenyl indole.2HCl or DCI 4',6-dicarboxyamide-2-phenyl indole.

4',6-Dioarboxyamide-2-phenyl indole (DCI), a non-ionic structural analogue of 4',6-diamidine-2-phenyl indole.2HCl (DAPI), was synthesized in order to verify the hypothesis of intercalation of both dyes into the DNA double helix. The influence of pH, viscosity, and different concentrations of SDS (sodium dodecylsulphate) or NaCl on the optical and fluorescent properties and the changes in thermal transition of both dye complexes with DNA confirm the affinity of the dyes to the double helix as well as their stabilizing influence on the secondary DNA structure. The results of binding studies, carried out by fluorescent methods have shown that the dyes are strongly bound to DNA, though the number of binding sites is small. According to the experimental data, the fluorescent properties of DAPI and DCI complexes with DNA are connected with the intercalating binding mechanism of these dyes. On the other hand, the eventual ionic or hydrogen bonds of dyes outside the DNA helix do not change noticeably their fluorescent properties.

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