摘要 |
This invention relates to radiolabeled reagents, including specific-binding peptide embodiments thereof, and methods for producing and using such reagents. Specifically, the invention relates to reagents for preparing scintigraphic imaging agents for imaging sites in a mammalian body. Reagents, methods and kits for making such reagents, and methods for using such reagents labeled with technetium-99m (Tc-99m) via Tc-99m binding moieties comprising said reagents, are provided. In particular, the specific-binding peptides and Tc-99m binding moieties comprising the reagents of the invention are covalently linked to a polyvalent linker moiety, so that the polyvalent linker moiety is covalently linked to a multiplicity of the specific-binding peptides, and the Tc- 99m binding moieties are covalently linked to a plurality of the specific-binding peptides, the polyvalent linker moiety, or to both the specific-binding peptides and the polyvalent linker moiety.
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