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  • Title: Distribution of gallium-67 in normal and hypotransferrinemic tumor-bearing mice.
    Author: Sohn MH, Jones BJ, Whiting JH, Datz FL, Lynch RE, Morton KA.
    Journal: J Nucl Med; 1993 Dec; 34(12):2135-43. PubMed ID: 8254401.
    Abstract:
    The mechanism by which 67Ga accumulates in tumors is controversial. The most popular theory is that 67Ga binds to transferrin and gains access to cells by the transferrin receptor. However, substantial evidence suggests that uptake of 67Ga may not be universally mediated by transferrin in tumors. To determine whether transferrin is required for uptake of 67Ga in vivo, we compared the uptake of 67Ga by two types of implanted tumors and by normal tissues in normal and severely hypotransferrinemic strains of Balb/C mice. One type of tumor was strongly gallium-avid in normal mice; the other was not. Uptake of 67Ga by normal soft tissues was markedly less in hypotransferrinemic than in normal mice. Uptake of 67Ga by bone was equivalent in the two types of mice. For the more gallium-avid tumor, uptake of 67Ga was similar and the ratio of tumor-to-background activity was substantially higher in the hypotransferrinemic than in the normal mice. For the less gallium-avid tumor, uptake was significantly less in hypotransferrinemic than in normal mice. These data suggest that uptake of 67Ga by bone and by some tumors may be a transferrin-independent process.
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