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Christine Mona

Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA
Verified email at mednet.ucla.edu
Cited by 658

Correlation of 68Ga-FAPi-46 PET biodistribution with FAP expression by immunohistochemistry in patients with solid cancers: interim analysis of a prospective …

CE Mona, MR Benz, F Hikmat, TR Grogan… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Soc Nuclear Med
Fibroblast activation protein (FAP)–expressing cancer-associated fibroblasts confer
treatment resistance and promote metastasis and immunosuppression. Because FAP is …

Radiation dosimetry and biodistribution of 68Ga-FAPI-46 PET imaging in cancer patients

…, T Lindner, S Vauclin, C Mona… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
Targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) has become an attractive goal for diagnostic
imaging and therapy because they can constitute as much as 90% of a tumor mass. The …

Investigating PSMA-targeted radioligand therapy efficacy as a function of cellular PSMA levels and intratumoral PSMA heterogeneity

K Current, C Meyer, CE Magyar, CE Mona… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) targeting radioligands deliver
radiation to PSMA-expressing cells. However, the relationship between PSMA levels and …

Immune-checkpoint blockade enhances 225Ac-PSMA617 efficacy in a mouse model of prostate cancer

J Czernin, K Current, CE Mona… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)–targeted radionuclide therapy (RNT) may
increase tumor immunogenicity. We aimed at exploiting this effect by combining RNT with …

[HTML][HTML] Preclinical evaluation of PSMA expression in response to androgen receptor blockade for theranostics in prostate cancer

…, S Evans-Axelsson, AD Stuparu, R Slavik, CE Mona… - EJNMMI research, 2018 - Springer
Background Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-directed radioligand therapy (RLT)
is a promising yet not curative approach in castration-resistant (CR) prostate cancer (PC). …

Mechanisms of Resistance to Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen–Targeted Radioligand Therapy in a Mouse Model of Prostate Cancer

…, K Current, M Lennox, CE Mona… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)–targeted radioligand therapy (RLT) is effective
against prostate cancer (PCa), but all patients relapse eventually. Poor understanding of the …

68Ga-FAPi-46 diffuse bilateral breast uptake in a patient with cervical cancer after hormonal stimulation

…, S Memarzadeh, MM Quinn, CE Mona… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
A 36-year-old female patient diagnosed with invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix
underwent an 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F] FDG) PET/CT scan (Figs. 1a and 2a: MIP, Fig. …

Detection threshold and reproducibility of 68Ga-PSMA11 PET/CT in a mouse model of prostate cancer

…, L Wei, W Kim, CG Radu, CE Mona… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
To improve prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)–targeted theranostic approaches,
robust murine models of prostate cancer are needed. However, important characteristics of …

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of CXCR4 ligands

CE Mona, É Besserer-Offroy, J Cabana… - Organic & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
A combination of the CXCR4 inverse agonist T140 with N-terminal CXCL12 oligopeptides
has produced the first nanomolar synthetic CXCR4 agonists. In these agonists, the inverse …