Accumulation of technetium-99m glucarate: in vitro cell cultures and in vivo tumour models
Bibliographic record
Abstract
99mTc-glucarate is an investigational radiopharmaceutical which has been shown to accumulate in acute cerebral and myocardial injuries and in some tumours. In the present work, a survey of possible factors affecting the cellular accumulation of 99mTc-glucarate was carried out in cell lines and strains in vitro and in murine tumours in vivo. Accumulation was enhanced under hypoxic conditions in 12 of the 16 human and murine cell lines and strains studied, and inhibited in the presence of nitroimidazoles. At temperatures lower than 37 degrees C, accumulation was reduced, but a hypoxic/aerobic differential was maintained. Aerobic accumulation of 99mTc-glucarate was enhanced by cyanide. In transplanted tumours in mice, 99mTc-glucarate showed high tumour/muscle and tumour/blood ratios at early times after injection. Pharmacological enhancement of the extent of hypoxia by the administration of hydralazine or nitro-L-arginine resulted in significantly increased accumulation of 99mTc-glucarate in the tumour. The in vitro and in vivo properties of 99mTc-glucarate suggest that it may be useful for tumour imaging in the clinic, although the exact mechanism(s) by which it localizes in tumours remains unknown.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".