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(DTPA) di·eth·yl·ene·tri·amine pen·ta·ace·tic ac·id (DTPA) (di-eth″əl-ēn-triґə-mēn pen″tə-ə-seґtik asґid) pentetic acid.Medical dictionary. 2011.
pentetic acid — A pentaacetic acid triamine with affinity for heavy metals; used as the calcium sodium chelate in the treatment of iron storage disease and poisoning from heavy metals and radioactive metals. SEE ALSO: ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. * * *… … Medical dictionary
Pentetic acid — For the diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine, see DPT vaccine#DTaP. Pentetic acid … Wikipedia
pentetic acid — noun Diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA), a polyamino carboxylic acid consisting of a diethylenetriamine backbone modified with five carboxymethyl groups, used as a chelating agent to treat radioactive contamination … Wiktionary
Alexander Catsch — (Katsch) (1913 ndash; 1976 in Karlsruhe) was a German Russian medical doctor and radiation biologist. Up to the end of World War II, he worked in Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timefeev Resovskij’s Abteilung für Experimentelle Genetik at the Kaiser… … Wikipedia
DTPA — Abbreviation for diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid. * * * diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid * * * DiethyleneTriaminePentaacetic Acid, which when labelled with technetium 99m is used as a tracer to obtain scintigram of the kidney over a period… … Medical dictionary
Gd-DTPA — gadolinium diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid … Medical dictionary
Gd-EDTA — gadolinium diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid … Medical dictionary
Gd-DTPA — • gadolinium diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid … Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations
Gd-EDTA — • gadolinium diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid … Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations
