Publications by authors named "H P Juretschke"

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  • The study investigates the repeatability and reproducibility of the water proton longitudinal relaxation rate (R) in small-animal MRI across multiple sites and occasions.
  • Researchers measured R in agarose phantoms with varying nickel chloride concentrations in 12 MRI magnets across 11 centers, analyzing a total of 360 measurements.
  • Results found that while day-to-day variability was low (2.34%) and between-center variability was also low (1.43%), certain MR biomarkers were sensitive to small discrepancies in R, indicating that careful calibration may be necessary for specific applications.
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Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common diseases in the aging population. While disease progress in humans is monitored indirectly by X-ray or MRI, small animal OA lesions detection always requires surgical intervention and histology. Here we introduce bimodal MR/NIR probes based on cartilage-targeting 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane 1,4,7,10-tetraacetic acid amide (DOTAM) that are directly administered to the joint cavity.

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The monitoring of diabetes mellitus, as it develops and becomes clinically evident, remains a major challenge for diagnostic imaging in clinical practice. Here we present a novel approach to beta-cell imaging by targeting the sulphonylurea receptor subtype 1 (SUR1), using multivalent derivatives of the anti-diabetic drug glibenclamide. Since glibenclamide has a high affinity for SUR1 but does not contain a suitable functional group to be linked to an imaging probe, we have synthesized 11 glibenclamide derivatives and evaluated their affinity to SUR1 in MIN6 cells.

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Diabetes mellitus is a growing worldwide epidemic disease, currently affecting 1 in 12 adults. Treatment of disease complications typically consumes ∼10% of healthcare budgets in developed societies. Whilst immune-mediated destruction of insulin-secreting pancreatic β cells is responsible for Type 1 diabetes, both the loss and dysfunction of these cells underly the more prevalent Type 2 diabetes.

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Despite the contribution of changes in pancreatic β-cell mass to the development of all forms of diabetes mellitus, few robust approaches currently exist to monitor these changes prospectively in vivo. Although magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) provides a potentially useful technique, targeting MRI-active probes to the β cell has proved challenging. Zinc ions are highly concentrated in the secretory granule, but they are relatively less abundant in the exocrine pancreas and in other tissues.

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