Early detection of rheumatoid arthritis in rats and humans with 99mTc-3PRGD2 scintigraphy: imaging synovial neoangiogenesis

Abstract

// <![CDATA[ $('.header-date').hide();$('#titleAuthors').hide();$('#abstractHeader').hide(); // ]]> Yu Wu1,2,*, Guojian Zhang1,*, Xiangcheng Wang1, Zhenfang Zhao1, Tao Wang1, Xuemei Wang1 and Xiao-Feng Li3,4 1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inner Mongolia Medical University Affiliated Hospital, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inner Mongolia Medical University Affiliated People’s Hospital, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China 3 PET/CT/MRI Center, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China 4 Department of Radiology, University of Louisville, Louisville KY, USA * These authors have contributed eqally to this work Correspondence to: Xuemei Wang, email: // <![CDATA[ mail("wangxuemei201010","163",0,"") // ]]> Xiao-Feng Li, email: // <![CDATA[ mail("linucmed","hotmail",0,"") // ]]> Keywords: rheumatoid arthritis; synovial neoangiogenesis; 99mTc-3PRGD2; 99mTc-MDP; scintigraphy; αvβ3 Received: July 06, 2016 Accepted: December 08, 2016 Published: December 15, 2016