The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) was an international, multiplatform field campaign to measure long-range transport of air pollution from South and Southeast Asia toward the Indian Ocean during the dry monsoon season in January to March 1999. Surprisingly high pollution levels were observed over the entire northern Indian Ocean toward the Intertropical Convergence Zone at about 6 degrees S. We show that agricultural burning and especially biofuel use enhance carbon monoxide concentrations. Fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning cause a high aerosol loading. The growing pollution in this region gives rise to extensive air quality degradation with local, regional, and global implications, including a reduction of the oxidizing power of the atmosphere.
A first-of-its-kind 18F pretargeted PET imaging approach
based on the bioorthogonal inverse electron demand Diels–Alder
(IEDDA) reaction between tetrazine (Tz) and trans-cyclooctene (TCO)
is presented. As proof-of-principle, a TCO-bearing immunoconjugate
of the anti-CA19.9 antibody 5B1 and an Al[18F]NOTA-labeled
tetrazine radioligand were harnessed for the visualization of CA19.9-expressing
BxPC3 pancreatic cancer xenografts. Biodistribution and 18F-PET imaging data clearly demonstrate that this methodology effectively
delineates tumor mass with activity concentrations up to 6.4 %ID/g
at 4 h after injection of the radioligand.
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