Labeled Carcinoembryonic Antigen Antibodies Excitable by Infrared Rays. A Novel Diagnostic Method for Micro Cancers in the Digestive Tract.

Naoki Muguruma, Susumu Ito, Terumi Bando, Satoko TAOKA, Yoshihiro Kusaka, Shigehito Hayashi, Soichi Ichikawa, Yuko Matsunaga, Yoshie Tada, Seisuke Okamura,

Internal Medicine · 1999 · 16 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

Specific antibodies labeled with ICG-sulfo-OSu have significant affinity to cancer cells and seem to reflect sufficient amounts of fluorescence by IR to be useful in a system for the endoscopic detection of micro cancers using the immunohistochemical staining method.

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