“…Immunoconjugation and radioimmunoconjugation were performed as previously described [25]. Briefly, the trastuzumab (Herceptin ® , Roche, Basileia, Switzerland), at an initial concentration of 10.5 mg•mL −1 , was previously purified by centrifugation using the concentrator tube (Amicon ® Ultra 10,000 MWCO, Merck Millipore, Burlington, MA, USA) with 0.2 M sodium bicarbonate buffer (pH 8.5) at 3000× g/4 • C. Conjugation to the bifunctional chelating agents p-SCN-Bn-DTPA and DOTA-NHS-ester (Macrocyclics, Plano, TX, USA) in a 1:20 (antibody:chelator) molar ratio, were performed by incubation at 37 • C and 350 rpm for 2 h. The volume of the immunoconjugation reaction was 1.5 mL.…”