Fluorescence Reflectance Imaging of Macrophage-Rich Atherosclerotic Plaques Using an α<sub>v</sub>β<sub>3</sub> Integrin–Targeted Fluorochrome - Concepedia

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Fluorescence Reflectance Imaging of Macrophage-Rich Atherosclerotic Plaques Using an α<sub>v</sub>β<sub>3</sub> Integrin–Targeted Fluorochrome

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2008

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Jens Waldeck, Florian Häger, Carsten Höltke, Christian Lanckohr, Angelika von Wallbrunn, Giovanni Torsello, Walter Heindel, Gregor Theilmeier, Michael Schäfers, Christoph Bremer

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Abstract

RGD-Cy 5.5, combined with near-infrared optical imaging methods, allows the specific imaging of alphavbeta3-integrin expression on macrophages recruited to vascular lesions and may serve to estimate macrophage-bound inflammatory activity of atherosclerotic lesions.

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