Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Volume 37, Issue 2 , Pages 197-204 , February 2010

Uptake of 3-[125I]iodo-α-methyl-l-tyrosine into colon cancer DLD-1 cells: characterization and inhibitory effect of natural amino acids and amino acid-like drugs

  • Naoto Shikano

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiological Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0394, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 29 840 2217; fax: +81 29 840 2317.
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  • Masato Ogura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiological Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0394, Japan
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  • Hiroyuki Okudaira

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-0942, Japan
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  • Syuichi Nakajima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiological Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0394, Japan
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  • Takashi Kotani

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiological Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0394, Japan
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  • Masato Kobayashi

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-0942, Japan
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  • Shinya Nakazawa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiological Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0394, Japan
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  • Takeshi Baba

      Affiliations

    • Center for Medical Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0394, Japan
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  • Naoto Yamaguchi

      Affiliations

    • Center for Medical Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0394, Japan
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  • Nobuo Kubota

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiological Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0394, Japan
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  • Yukio Iwamura

      Affiliations

    • Center for Humanities and Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0394, Japan
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  • Keiichi Kawai

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-0942, Japan

Received 20 June 2007 ,Revised 7 October 2009 ,Accepted 31 October 2009.

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☆ This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (#10770451, #14770498, #13557075, #15659283, #16659322 and #17390336) from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Financial support was also provided by the Ibaraki Prefectural University Research Project (9808, 0118, and 0220); Ibaraki Prefectural University Grants-in-Aid of the Encouragement for Young Scientists 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009; and Japan Atherosclerosis Research Foundation Grant-2008.

PII: S0969-8051(09)00259-5

doi: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2009.10.011

Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Volume 37, Issue 2 , Pages 197-204 , February 2010

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