Radiolabelled Pyrimidine Nucleosides to Monitor the Expression of HSV-1 Thymidine Kinase in Gene Therapy

Leonard I. Wiebe, Edward E. Knaus, Kevin W. Morin

Nucleosides and Nucleotides · 1999 · 24 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

Selective radiolabelling and imaging of transduced HSV tk expressing cells was studied using [123I]IVFRU, [125I]FIRU and [125I]FIAU. Although all three radionucleosides accumulated in the KBALB-STK transduced murine tumour line in vitro and in vivo, [125I]FIRU provided optimal performance in terms of selectivity for HSV tk expressing cells and % of injected dose accumulating in the tumor.

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