title: Biodistribution of monoclonal antibody A7 and its F(ab')2 fragment in athymic nude mice bearing human pancreatic carcinoma.
abstract: Xenografts of a human pancreatic carcinoma cell line, HPC-YS, which reacted with the monoclonal antibody (MAb) A7, were used to investigate the in vivo localization of radioiodinated MAb A7 after intraperitoneal injection. MAb A7 localized to the tumor 4 days and 8 days after injection with a tissue/blood ratio of 1.45 +/- 0.18 and 2.04 +/- 0.20, respectively. The accumulation of MAb A7 in the tumor was 5%/g and 3.3%/g of the injected dose on day 4 and on day 8, respectively. In contrast, the F(ab')2 fragment of MAb A7 localized to the tumor 4 days after intravenous injection with a tissue/blood ratio of 14.2. The accumulation of the F(ab')2 fragment in the tumor was 1.2%/g of the injected dose. These results suggested that MAb A7 might be a suitable carrier of anticancer drugs for immunotargeting chemotherapy and that the F(ab')2 fragment might be potentially useful for the immunodetection of human pancreatic carcinomas.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Otsuji
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yamaoka
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Imanishi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takahashi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004337:Drug Carriers; D006801:Humans; D007140:Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D016719:Radioimmunodetection; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D004337:Drug Carriers; D007140:Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes