University of Missouri

Timothy J Hoffman

Wynn A Volkert

Gary Sieckman

Ning Li

Chrys-Ann Higginbotham

Kattesh V Katti

Hariprasad Gali

Charles Jeffrey Smith

C A Higginbotham

A compound for use as a therapeutic or diagnostic radiopharmaceutical includes a group capable of complexing a medically useful metal attached to a moiety which is capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor. A method for treating a subject having a neoplastic disease includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a radiopharmaceutical having a metal chelated with a chelating group attached to a moiety capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor expressed on tumor cells with subsequent internalization inside of the cell. A method of forming a therapeutic or diagnostic compound includes reacting a metal synthon with a chelating group covalently linked with a moiety capable of binding a gastrin releasing peptide receptor.

Gastrin receptor-avid peptide conjugates

A compound for use as a therapeutic or diagnostic radiopharmaceutical includes a group capable of complexing a medically useful metal attached to a moiety which is capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor. A method for treating a subject having a neoplastic disease includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a radiopharmaceutical having a metal chelated with a chelating group attached to a-moiety capable of binding to a gastrin releasing peptide receptor expressed on tumor cells with subsequent internalization inside of the cell. A method of forming a therapeutic or diagnostic compound includes reacting a metal synthon with a chelating group covalently linked with a moiety capable of binding a gastrin releasing peptide receptor.

There is provided a complex for use as a therapeutic pharmaceutical, the complex has a ligand containing at least one hydroxyalkyl phosphine donor group bound to a gold atom to form a stable gold-ligand complex. Also provided is a method of treating cancer by administering an effective amount of a complex having a ligand of at least one hydroxyalkyl phosphine group bound to a gold atom to form a stable gold-ligand complex. Also provided is a method of preventing the metastasis of cancer and arresting cell growth by administering an effective amount of a complex having a ligand of at least one hydroxyalkyl phosphine group bound to a gold atom to form a stable gold-ligand complex.

Gold-containing chemotherapeutic agents

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Columbia, MO, United States of America

Timothy J Hoffman