| Imaging and quantification of metastatic melanoma cells in lymph nodes with a ferritin MR reporter in living mice. | |
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PMID: 22124937 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Cellular MRI with a reporter gene offers the opportunity to track small numbers of tumor cells and to study metastatic processes in their earliest developmental stages in the target organs of interest. This study demonstrates the feasibility of using the MR reporter ferritin for the noninvasive imaging and quantification of metastatic melanoma cells in the lymph nodes (LNs) of living mice. A B16F10 murine melanoma cell line expressing human ferritin heavy chain (hFTH) and green fluorescent protein (GFP) was constructed to allow the detection of cells by MRI and fluorescence imaging. Stable overexpression of hFTH and GFP in B16F10 murine melanoma cells was feasible and showed no cellular toxicity. In addition, hFTH cells were detectable by 9.4-T MRI in vitro and in vivo, yielding significant changes in T(2) * relative to control cells. In BALB/c nude mice, the presence of hFTH- and GFP-expressing metastatic melanoma cells in deep-seated axillary LNs was demonstrated as areas of low T(2) * on MRI, but the same LNs were not visible by fluorescence imaging because the light was unable to penetrate the tissue. Furthermore, the metastatic volume of each LN, which was assessed by cumulative histogram analysis of the T(2) * MRI data, correlated well with tumor burden, which was determined by histology (r = -0.8773, p = 0.0001). This study is the first to use MRI and an MR reporter gene for both the visualization and quantification of metastatic cancer cells in LNs. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Seung Hong Choi; Hye Rim Cho; Hoe Suk Kim; Young Hwa Kim; Keon Wook Kang; Hyeonjin Kim; Woo Kyung Moon |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-11-28 |
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Title: NMR in biomedicine Volume: - ISSN: 1099-1492 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Nov |
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Created Date: 2011-11-29 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8915233 Medline TA: NMR Biomed Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. |
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