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Molecular Immune Targeted Imaging of Tumor Microenvironment

Year: 2022

Type: review

Abstract: Novel targeted therapies are rapidly emerging for the treatment of cancer. With the advent of new immune targeting agents, understanding the changes in the tumor microenvironment (TME) is critical. Given the complexity and several cellular mechanisms and factors that play a role in the TME, novel imaging methods to assess and evaluate the dynamic changes in the TME during treatment are needed. Several techniques are being developed for imaging TME including optical, fluorescence and photoacoustic methods. Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging can be used to track the dynamics of different molecular targets in the TME in live animals and in humans. Several novel PET imaging probes including radiolabeled antibodies, antibody fragments, and small molecules have been developed with many more that are under development preclinically and in early human studies. This review is a brief overview of some of the PET agents that are either in the preclinical developmental phase or undergoing early clinical studies.

Source: Nanotheranostics

DOI: 10.7150/ntno.66556

Authors: Taha Rakhshandehroo, Bryan Ronain Smith, Hannah J. Glockner, Mohammad Rashidian, Neeta Pandit-Taskar

Institutions: Harvard University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Michigan State University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications

Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $668