OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the safety and clinical efficacy of computed tomography (CT)-guided radioactive iodine-125 ((125)I) seed implantation treatment in patients with spinal metastatic tumors. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 20 cases of spinal metastatic tumors, including nine men and eleven women aged 50-79 years (mean age: 61.1 years). We used treatment plan...

The basal (swelling-induced) and receptor-stimulated effluxes of (125)I(-) and taurine have been monitored to determine whether these two osmolytes are released from human SH-SY5Y cells under hypotonic conditions via common or distinct mechanisms. Under basal conditions, both (125)I(-) (used as a tracer for Cl(-)) and taurine were released from the cells in a volume-dependent manner. The additi...

INTRODUCTION Low dose-rate radioimmunotherapy (RIT) using (125)I-labelled monoclonal antibodies ((125)I-mAbs) is associated with unexpected high cytotoxicity per Gy. METHODS We investigated whether this hypersensitivity was due to lack of detection of DNA damage by the targeted cells. DNA damage was measured with the alkaline comet assay, gamma-H2AX foci and the micronucleus test in p53(-/-) ...

BACKGROUND Iodine interstitial brachytherapy has been widely reported for treating colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the inhibitory molecular mechanism of iodine-125 (I-125) on CRC has not been reported. METHODS To illustrate the inhibitory mechanism of iodine-125 (I-125) on CRC, we established the animal models of CRC via the injection of HCT-8 cells into nude mice. Subsequently, the I-125 g...

We characterized Cl(-) conductance activated by extracellular ATP in an immortalized cell line derived from rabbit distal bright convoluted tubule (DC1). (125)I(-) efflux experiments showed that ATP increased (125)I(-) loss with an EC(50) = 3 microM. Diphenylamine-2-carboxylate (10(-3) M) and NPPB (10(-4) M) abolished the (125)I(-) efflux. Preincubation with 10 microM 1, 2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)et...

PURPOSE Model-baseddose calculations (MBDCs) are performed using patient computed tomography (CT) data for patients treated with intraoperative125 I lung brachytherapy at the Mayo Clinic Rochester. Various metallic artifact correction and tissue assignment schemes are considered and their effects on dose distributions are studied. Dose distributions are compared to those calculated under TG-43 ...

The post-implantation dosimetry for brachytherapy using Monte Carlo calculation by EGS5 code combined with the source strength regression was investigated with respect to its validity. In this method, the source strength for the EGS5 calculation was adjusted with the regression, so that the calculation would reproduce the dose monitored with the glass rod dosimeters (GRDs) on a water phantom. T...

In vivo plasminogen responses to various stimuli were studied. Plasminogen-(125)I was prepared and used first for metabolic studies of plasminogen in control dogs. The average results were: the plasma plasminogen, 29.3+/-4.1 (SD) mg/kg; the interstitial plasminogen, 8.79+/-4.47 (SD) mg/kg; the half-life of plasma plasminogen-(125)I, 2.81+/-0.24 (SD) days; the fractional direct catabolic rate of...