The arrival of cell-based therapies is a revolution in medicine. However, its safe clinical
application in a rational manner depends on reliable, clinically applicable methods for …

Hexamethylpropylene-amineoxime (HMPAO) forms a lipid-soluble neutral complex with
99m Tc which is rapidly incorporated into leucocytes in vitro. In six patients with suspected or …

Leukocytes labeled with technetium-99m hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime (HMPAO) were
used in 100 patients: 32 with suspected inflammatory bowel disease, 17 with fever of …

Over the past decade, fluorine (19F) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has garnered
significant scientific interest in the biomedical research community owing to the unique …

m-Chlorophenylpiperazine (mCPP) is a mixed serotonin agonist/antagonist used
extensively in psychiatric research. Alcoholics show blunted neuroendocrine responses to …

The functional integrity of white blood cells labeled with [@ †TcJd, l-HM-PAOcontaining
variable amounts of the ligand or of the@ †œTc activity was evaluated by enzymatic tests …

The diagnosis of abdominal infections and inflammations often presents considerable
difficulty, and various imaging techniques may be required to localize them accurately. At …

Cystic fibrosis is a common, heriditary disease resulting from mutations of the cystic fibrosis
transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. Airway transfer of the CFTR gene is a …

A procedure is described for the phagocytic labeling of white blood cells (WBC) with high
specific activity 99m Tc-albumin colloid (TAC). The preparation contains approximately …

Leukocytes can be labelled with 99m Tc using HMPAO and gentisic acid methods. We
compared the two methods with respect to labelling efficiency on mixed leukocytes and …