The pharmacological properties of 3-arm or 4-arm DOTA constructs for conjugation to α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analogues for melanoma imaging

• Masato Kobayashi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masato Kobayashi, Toshitaka Kato

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kobayasi@mhs.mp.kanazawa-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Wellness Promotion Science Center, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, Department of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5172-2626

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• Toshitaka Kato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masato Kobayashi, Toshitaka Kato

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

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• Kohshin Washiyama,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, Advanced Clinical Research Center, Fukushima Global Medical Science Center, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

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• Masaaki Ihara,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

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• Asuka Mizutani,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

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• Kodai Nishi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Radioisotope Medicine, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Leo G. Flores 2nd,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Ryuichi Nishii,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan

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• Keiichi Kawai

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, Biomedical Imaging Research Center, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan

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