The immune system is endowed with the capacity to distinguish between self and non-self, so-called immune tolerance or "consciousness of the immune system." This type of awareness is designed to achieve host protection by eliminating cells expressing a wide range of non-self antigens including microbial-derived peptides. Such a successful immune response is associated with the secretion of a whole spectrum of soluble mediators, e.
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December 2024
The π-clamp-mediated conjugation method, which enables site-specific modification of cysteine residues, is a promising strategy for developing well-defined radiolabelled biomolecules for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. We have applied this method to site-specifically attach the macrocyclic chelators "NODA" and "NODAGA" to the somatostatin receptor 2-targeted peptide, octreotate. The resulting novel NODA-octreotate and NODAGA-octreotate compounds can be radiolabelled with either [F]AlF or [Ga]Ga respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: In women with high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC), a CT-based radiomic prognostic vector (RPV) predicted stromal phenotype and survival after primary surgery. The study's purpose was to fully externally validate RPV and its biological correlate.
Materials And Methods: In this retrospective study, ovarian masses on CT scans of HGSOC patients, who underwent primary cytoreductive surgery in an ESGO-certified Center between 2002 and 2017, were segmented for external RPV score calculation and then correlated with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS).