F. Koumanov et al., BIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF ANALOGS OF GLUCOSE IODINATED IN POSITION-1, POSITION-2, OR POSITION-3, Nuclear medicine and biology, 23(1), 1996, pp. 53-60
Analogues of glucose labeled with 123 iodine in positions 1, 2 or 3 ha
ve been synthesized. The aim of this study was to examine their biolog
ical behavior in four experimental models in order to assess whether t
hey could be used to evaluate the uptake of glucose with single photon
emission computed tomography (SPECT). The results obtained have shown
that none of these molecules enters the cell using the glucose transp
orter. Therefore, they cannot be used as tracers of glucose uptake.