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This review aims to present magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) for applications in cellular therapeutics including descriptions of the use of 19F MRI and 19F MRS in drug tracking and visualization. Both MRI and MRS are often used as diagnostic tools in oncology, are non-invasive, and also can be employed for monitoring non-oncological and oncological therapies. Herin, we provide information pertaining to tracking and visualization of fluorinated drug uptake in cancer tissue in vitro, in vivo and ex vivo. The response of tissue to treatment is also discussed.
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Lung cancer is one of the most common types of cancer diagnosed, and the development of methods to image diseased lung tissue by MRI is of utmost importance. Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CE-MRI) was used to noninvasively evaluate spin-spin relaxation time, T1, of lung cell cultures infused with various clinical gadolinium-based contrast media for imaging. In this study we used a clinical 1.5 Tesla scanner and the contrast agents: Omniscan, MultiHance, Gadovist and ProHance. A significant five-fold reduction of T1 relaxation time was obtained.
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Tobacco use is a leading cause of preventable mortality worldwide. New cost-effective smoking cessation treatments are needed especially in some low-to-middle income countries where smoking rates are rising, and current pharmacotherapy treatments remain cost-prohibitive. Since the 1960’s, cytisine has been used as an effective nicotine substitution agent to aid in smoking cessation albeit limited to a selected few Eastern/Central Europe and Central Asian countries. Cytisine is a biologically active alkaloid of plant origin and is known to be a ligand of nicotinic acetylcholinergic receptors (nAChRs). For several decades, the properties of cytisine have been investigated and reported in the biomedical and pharmaceutical literature. Due to the beneficial impact of cytisine on smoking cessation and its costly multistep synthesis, there is a growing interest in extraction from natural sources as well as in analytical identification and quantification for clinical medicine and forensic toxicology. In this paper, we present several current analytical approaches to cytisine extraction and identification from biological samples of plant and human origin. The development of extraction techniques will allow for the widespread use of the drug in experimental and clinical pharmacology, toxicology and forensic medicine.
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