• Development of a bioluminescent nitroreductase probe for preclinical imaging 

      Vorobyeva, Anzhelika G.; Stanton, Michael; Godinat, Aurélien; Lund, Kjetil B.; Karateev, Grigory G.; Francis, Kevin P.; Allen, Elizabeth; Gelovani, Juri G.; McCormack, Emmet; Tangney, Mark; Dubikovskaya, Elena A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06-25)
      Bacterial nitroreductases (NTRs) have been widely utilized in the development of novel antibiotics, degradation of pollutants, and gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy (GDEPT) of cancer that reached clinical trials. In ...
    • Intraoperative anaphylaxis to gelatin-basedhemostatic agents: a case report 

      Lied, Gülen Arslan; Lund, Kjetil B.; Storaas, Torgeir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Surgiflo Haemostatic Matrix is an absorbable gelatin matrix hemostatic material that has been widely used in various surgical operations to assist hemostasis. Nonetheless, as biologically active agents (contains porcine ...
    • Repurposing 18F-FMISO as a PET tracer for translational imaging of nitroreductase-based gene directed enzyme prodrug therapy 

      Ruiz de Garibay, Gorka; García de Jalón, Elvira; Stigen, Endre; Lund, Kjetil B.; Popa, Mihaela-Lucia; Davidson, Ben; Mayoral Safont, Mireia; Rygh, Cecilie Brekke; Espedal, Heidi; Barrett, Torill; Haug, Bengt Erik; McCormack, Emmet (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Nitroreductases (NTR) are a family of bacterial enzymes used in gene directed enzyme prodrug therapy (GDEPT) that selectively activate prodrugs containing aromatic nitro groups to exert cytotoxic effects following gene ...