The invention provides, in some embodiments, methods relating to assessing increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation (AF), and/or the likelihood of responding to particular AF therapies using imaging agents comprising an MMP inhibitor linked to an imaging moiety. The invention further provides methods for evaluating the presence of the risk of developing other cardiovascular conditions and assessing the effectiveness of treatment or other intervention for such conditions by determining MMP levels.

The present invention provides certain compounds, Formula (I), or salts or solvates thereof, which can be used as matrix metalloproteinase-targeted inhibitors or imaging agents.

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Compositions and methods for visualizing tissue under illumination with near-infrared radiation, including compounds comprising near-infrared, closed chain, sulfo-cyanine dyes and prostate specific membrane antigen ligands are disclosed.

The present invention claims UV detectable (>210 nm) potassium [.sup.18F]fluoride diaryl- and aryl-fused [2.2.2]cryptate complexes suitable for performing radio-labeling reactions to generate [.sup.18F] fluorinated species.

Compositions and methods for visualizing tissue under illumination with near-infrared radiation, including compounds comprising near-infrared, closed chain, sulfo-cyanine dyes and prostate specific membrane antigen ligands are disclosed.

The present invention relates to the use of radium-223, particularly a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of radium-223, and combinations comprising radium-223, for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment or prophylaxis of a haematologic malignancy disease, particularly for the treatment of multiple myeloma thereof.

The present invention claims UV detectable (>210 nm) potassium [.sup.18F]fluoride diaryl- and aryl-fused [2.2.2]cryptate complexes suitable for performing radio-labeling reactions to generate [.sup.18F] fluorinated species.

The present invention is directed to sarcophagine based compounds of formula (I). The compounds can complex a radioisotope, such as 64-copper and hence are useful in radioimaging and radiotherapy of cancers, e.g. colorectal cancer. The compounds work via a pre-targeting imaging approach in which the tetrazine reacts via click chemistry with a functional group such as a transcyclooctene which is pre-bound to a ligand such as a tumour specific antibody. ##STR00001##

The present application provides quinoline-3-carboxamide compounds covalently linked to a label for use in the diagnosis of an inflammatory disease at local site. The above mentioned compounds can be used to detect or image accumulation of S100A9 in the body of a subject at sites of inflammation, using in vivo non-invasive molecular imaging techniques for the detection of said compounds. Accordingly, labeled quinoline-3-carboxamide compounds can be applied to evaluate the risk of a subject of developing an inflammatory disease and to follow the progress of the disease.

The present invention relates to a compound, etc. capable of providing a radiolabeled drug that can reduce the renal accumulation thereof in the early stage after the administration thereof. [1] A compound, etc. represented by the formula (1), [2] a compound, etc. containing the compound, etc. according to the item [1] and a target molecule recognition element bonded thereto, [3] a metal complex compound, etc. containing one kind of a metal selected from a radioactive metal and a radioactive atom-labeled metal, and the compound, etc. according to the item [1] or [2], which is coordinated to the metal, [4] a drug for preparing a radiolabeled drug, containing the compound, etc. according to the item [1] or [2], [5] use of the compound, etc. according to the item [1] or [2], for producing a radiolabeled drug, [6] a radiolabeled drug containing the metal complex compound, etc. according to the item [3], and [7] a radiodiagnostic imaging agent containing the metal complex compound, etc. according to the item [3]:

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