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Chakravarty R, Hong H, Cai W. Positron emission tomography image-guided drug delivery: current status and future perspectives. Mol Pharm 2014; 11:3777-97. [PMID: 24865108 PMCID: PMC4218872 DOI: 10.1021/mp500173s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Positron
emission tomography (PET) is an important modality in
the field of molecular imaging, which is gradually impacting patient
care by providing safe, fast, and reliable techniques that help to
alter the course of patient care by revealing invasive, de facto procedures
to be unnecessary or rendering them obsolete. Also, PET provides a
key connection between the molecular mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology
of disease and the according targeted therapies. Recently, PET imaging
is also gaining ground in the field of drug delivery. Current drug
delivery research is focused on developing novel drug delivery systems
with emphasis on precise targeting, accurate dose delivery, and minimal
toxicity in order to achieve maximum therapeutic efficacy. At the
intersection between PET imaging and controlled drug delivery, interest
has grown in combining both these paradigms into clinically effective
formulations. PET image-guided drug delivery has great potential to
revolutionize patient care by in vivo assessment
of drug biodistribution and accumulation at the target site and real-time
monitoring of the therapeutic outcome. The expected end point of this
approach is to provide fundamental support for the optimization of
innovative diagnostic and therapeutic strategies that could contribute
to emerging concepts in the field of “personalized medicine”.
This review focuses on the recent developments in PET image-guided
drug delivery and discusses intriguing opportunities for future development.
The preclinical data reported to date are quite promising, and it
is evident that such strategies in cancer management hold promise
for clinically translatable advances that can positively impact the
overall diagnostic and therapeutic processes and result in enhanced
quality of life for cancer patients.
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- Rubel Chakravarty
- Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2275, United States
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Penheiter AR, Russell SJ, Carlson SK. The sodium iodide symporter (NIS) as an imaging reporter for gene, viral, and cell-based therapies. Curr Gene Ther 2012; 12:33-47. [PMID: 22263922 PMCID: PMC3367315 DOI: 10.2174/156652312799789235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2011] [Revised: 01/04/2012] [Accepted: 01/06/2012] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Preclinical and clinical tomographic imaging systems increasingly are being utilized for non-invasive imaging of reporter gene products to reveal the distribution of molecular therapeutics within living subjects. Reporter gene and probe combinations can be employed to monitor vectors for gene, viral, and cell-based therapies. There are several reporter systems available; however, those employing radionuclides for positron emission tomography (PET) or singlephoton emission computed tomography (SPECT) offer the highest sensitivity and the greatest promise for deep tissue imaging in humans. Within the category of radionuclide reporters, the thyroidal sodium iodide symporter (NIS) has emerged as one of the most promising for preclinical and translational research. NIS has been incorporated into a remarkable variety of viral and non-viral vectors in which its functionality is conveniently determined by in vitro iodide uptake assays prior to live animal imaging. This review on the NIS reporter will focus on 1) differences between endogenous NIS and heterologously-expressed NIS, 2) qualitative or comparative use of NIS as an imaging reporter in preclinical and translational gene therapy, oncolytic viral therapy, and cell trafficking research, and 3) use of NIS as an absolute quantitative reporter.
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- Alan R Penheiter
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Niu G, Chen X. Molecular imaging with activatable reporter systems. Am J Cancer Res 2012; 2:413-23. [PMID: 22539937 PMCID: PMC3337733 DOI: 10.7150/thno.3940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2011] [Accepted: 02/08/2012] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Molecular imaging is a newly emerged multiple disciplinary field that aims to visualize, characterize and quantitatively measure biological processes at cellular and molecular levels in humans and other living systems. A reporter gene is a piece of DNA encoding reporter protein, which presents as a readily measurable phenotype that can be distinguished easily from the background of endogenous protein. After being transferred into cells of organ systems (transgenes), the reporter gene can be utilized to visualize transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression, protein-protein interactions, or trafficking of proteins or cells in living subjects. Herein, we review previous classification of reporter genes and regroup the reporter gene based imaging as basic, inducible and activatable, based on the regulation of reporter gene transcription and post-translational modification of reporter proteins. We then focus on activatable reporters, in which the signal can be activated at the posttranslational level for visualizing protein-protein interactions, protein phosphorylation or tertiary structure changes. The applications of several types of activatable reporters will also be summarized. We conclude that activatable reporter imaging can benefit both basic biomedical research and drug development.
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Wang M, Deng W, Fu M, Cao X, Yang Y, Su W, Yu J, Xu X. Efficient gene transfer into rat mesenchymal stem cells with cationized Lycium barbarum polysaccharides nanoparticles. Carbohydr Polym 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2011.06.073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Liu G, Swierczewska M, Niu G, Zhang X, Chen X. Molecular imaging of cell-based cancer immunotherapy. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2011; 7:993-1003. [PMID: 21308113 DOI: 10.1039/c0mb00198h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Cell-based cancer immunotherapy represents a new and powerful weapon in the arsenal of anticancer treatments. Non-invasive monitoring of the disposition, migration and destination of therapeutic cells will facilitate the development of cell based therapy. The therapeutic cells can be modified intrinsically by a reporter gene or labeled extrinsically by introducing imaging probes into the cells or on the cell surface before transplant. Various advanced non-invasive molecular imaging techniques are playing important roles in optimizing cellular therapy by tracking cells and monitoring the therapeutic effects of transplanted cells in vivo. This review will summarize the application of multiple molecular imaging modalities in cell-based cancer immunotherapy.
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- Gang Liu
- Sichuan Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637007, China
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Niu G, Chen X. From protein–protein interaction to therapy response: Molecular imaging of heat shock proteins. Eur J Radiol 2009; 70:294-304. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.01.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2009] [Accepted: 01/14/2009] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Segura J, Fillat C, Andreu D, Llop J, Millan O, de la Torre BG, Nikolovski Z, Gomez V, Andreu N, Pinyot A, Castelo R, Gispert JD, Pascual JA. Monitoring gene therapy by external imaging of mRNA: pilot study on murine erythropoietin. Ther Drug Monit 2007; 29:612-8. [PMID: 17898652 DOI: 10.1097/ftd.0b013e31811f3af6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Gene therapy is anticipated as being an important medical development. Essential to its effectiveness is the appropriate activity (protein expression) in the expected target cells. A noninvasive diagnostic procedure of successful gene expression will be of paramount importance to validate its use or its misuse (eg, sports gene doping). Externally detectable labeled oligonucleotide hybridizing with the messenger RNA generated by the transferred gene has been proposed as a possibility to monitor successful gene therapy. The authors selected the erythropoietin gene (Epo) for a pilot study on erythropoietin protein expression in mouse muscle. Oligonucleotides of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) type capable of antisense binding to unique murine Epo-mRNA sequences were synthesized by solid phase methods, and elongated at the N-terminus with the HIV Tat (48-60) cell penetrating peptide. They were labeled with fluorescence and radioactive tags to verify penetration and longer half-life properties in Epo gene transfected C2C12 mouse muscle cells as compared with corresponding wild-type cells. Downregulation of newly expressed erythropoietin protein in such cells additionally confirmed the penetration and hybridizing properties of the selected labeled oligonucleotide. I-labeled Tat-PNAs were intravenously injected into mice that had previously received the Epo gene into the right tibialis muscle by DNA electrotransfer. Preferential accumulation of radioactivity in the transferred limb as compared with the contralateral limb was ascertained, especially for I-Tat-CTA CGT AGA CCA CT (labeled Tat-PNA 1). This study provides experimental data to support the potential use of external noninvasive image detection to monitor gene therapy. The extension of the approach to more sensitive methods for whole-body external detection such as positron emission tomography appears feasible.
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- J Segura
- Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica IMIM-Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
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Voisin P, Ribot EJ, Miraux S, Bouzier-Sore AK, Lahitte JF, Bouchaud V, Mornet S, Thiaudière E, Franconi JM, Raison L, Labrugère C, Delville MH. Use of Lanthanide-Grafted Inorganic Nanoparticles as Effective Contrast Agents for Cellular Uptake Imaging. Bioconjug Chem 2007; 18:1053-63. [PMID: 17511491 DOI: 10.1021/bc060269t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The improvement of commonly used Gd3+ -based MRI agents requires the design of new systems with optimized in vivo efficacy, pharmacokinetic properties, and specificity. To design these contrast agents, two parameters are usually considered: increasing the number of coordinated water molecules or increasing the rotational correlation time by increasing molecular weight and size. This has been achieved by noncovalent or covalent binding of low-molecular weight Gd3+ chelates to macromolecules or polymers. The grafting of these high-spin paramagnetic gadolinium chelates on metal oxide nanoparticles (SiO2, Al2O3) is proposed. This new synthetic strategy presents at least two main advantages: (1) a high T1-relaxivity for MRI with a 275% increase of the MRI signal and (2) the ability of nanoparticles to be internalized in cells. Results indicate that these new contrast agents lead to a huge reconcentration of Gd3+ paramagnetic species inside microglial cells. This reconcentration phenomenon gives rise to high signal-to-noise ratios on MR images of cells after particle internalization, from 1.4 to 3.75, using Al2O3 or SiO2 particles, respectively. The properties of these new particles will be further used to get new insight into gene therapy against glioma, using microglial cells as vehicles to simultaneously transport a suicide gene and contrast agents. Since microglia are chemoattracted to brain tumors, the presence of these new contrast agents inside the cells will lead to a better MRI determination of the in vivo location, shape, and borders of the tumors. These Gd3+-loaded microglia can therefore provide effective localization of tumors by MRI before applying any therapeutic treatment. The rate of carcinoma remission following a suicide gene strategy is also possible.
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- Pierre Voisin
- Résonance Magnétique des Systèmes Biologiques, UMR CNRS 5536, 146 rue Léo Saignat, F-33076 Bordeaux cedex France
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Rome C, Couillaud F, Moonen CTW. Gene expression and gene therapy imaging. Eur Radiol 2006; 17:305-19. [PMID: 16967261 DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0378-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2006] [Revised: 06/14/2006] [Accepted: 06/23/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The fast growing field of molecular imaging has achieved major advances in imaging gene expression, an important element of gene therapy. Gene expression imaging is based on specific probes or contrast agents that allow either direct or indirect spatio-temporal evaluation of gene expression. Direct evaluation is possible with, for example, contrast agents that bind directly to a specific target (e.g., receptor). Indirect evaluation may be achieved by using specific substrate probes for a target enzyme. The use of marker genes, also called reporter genes, is an essential element of MI approaches for gene expression in gene therapy. The marker gene may not have a therapeutic role itself, but by coupling the marker gene to a therapeutic gene, expression of the marker gene reports on the expression of the therapeutic gene. Nuclear medicine and optical approaches are highly sensitive (detection of probes in the picomolar range), whereas MRI and ultrasound imaging are less sensitive and require amplification techniques and/or accumulation of contrast agents in enlarged contrast particles. Recently developed MI techniques are particularly relevant for gene therapy. Amongst these are the possibility to track gene therapy vectors such as stem cells, and the techniques that allow spatiotemporal control of gene expression by non-invasive heating (with MRI guided focused ultrasound) and the use of temperature sensitive promoters.
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- Claire Rome
- Laboratory for Molecular and Functional Imaging: from Physiology to Therapy ERT CNRS, Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France
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Wunderbaldinger P. Problems and prospects of modern lymph node imaging. Eur J Radiol 2006; 58:325-37. [PMID: 16464553 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2005.12.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2005] [Revised: 12/26/2005] [Accepted: 12/30/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Dharmarajan S, Schuster DP. Molecular imaging of the lungs. Acad Radiol 2005; 12:1394-405. [PMID: 16253851 DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2005.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2005] [Revised: 07/01/2005] [Accepted: 07/07/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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An emerging suite of new imaging techniques offer the ability to monitor and quantify molecular and cellular processes in the lungs noninvasively. These techniques take advantage of dramatic advances in both imaging technology as well as molecular and cell biology. Molecular imaging is being used with increasing regularity in research protocols, and forms of molecular imaging have found their way into the patient care setting (eg, positron emission tomography imaging in cancer). Such techniques will afford the basic scientist as well as the clinician an unprecedented opportunity for in vivo study of the lung biology that drives normal pulmonary physiology as well as pathophysiology.
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- Sekhar Dharmarajan
- Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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This review discusses imaging techniques for the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of brain metastases. It assesses the various modalities on the basis of their respective advantages and limitations. Recent advances in imaging technologies provide evaluation that is more accurate for tumor localization, morphology, physiology, and biology. When used in combination, these technologies provide clinicians with a powerful diagnostic and prognostic tool for managing metastatic brain disease.
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- Robert J Young
- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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Schwenzer NF, Grönewäller EF, Rodegerdts E, Kehlbach R, Duda SH, Claussen CD. MRI-compatible incubation chamber for cell culture experiments. J Magn Reson Imaging 2005; 23:70-6. [PMID: 16315215 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To develop an incubation chamber that is compatible with MRI, while avoiding sources of error due to the experimental setup. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two identical and gas-tight chambers were constructed of Plexiglas. The temperature and the CO(2) concentration were adjustable. Temperature variations within and between both chambers were measured. The pH values of the cell culture media were measured under different environmental settings. For each environment a colony formation test was carried out. The homogeneity of the magnetic field inside the chambers was estimated by phantom tests. RESULTS The temperature variations within the chambers were <0.3 degrees C, and the variation between the chambers was on average <0.05 degrees C. After eight hours the pH values of the cell culture media were 7.47 and 7.48 in the reference and measurement chambers, respectively; 7.41 in the CO(2) incubator; and 8.73 in ambient air. In colony formation tests the survival fraction in the Plexiglas chamber was comparable to that in the CO(2) incubator. No distortions of the magnetic field from the incubation chamber were observed. CONCLUSION The incubation system presented can provide the conditions of a CO(2) incubator without alteration of the magnetic flux density.
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- Nina F Schwenzer
- Division of Diagnostic Radiology, Department of Radiology, Klinikum der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Dharmarajan S, Schuster DP. Molecular imaging of pulmonary gene expression with positron emission tomography. PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY 2005; 2:549-52, 514-6. [PMID: 16352764 PMCID: PMC2713344 DOI: 10.1513/pats.200507-068ds] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2005] [Accepted: 08/27/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Gene expression imaging is one form of molecular imaging used to visualize, characterize, and quantify, spatially and temporally, normal as well as pathologic processes at cellular and subcellular levels within intact living organisms. Most studies to date have employed positron emission tomography as the imaging platform to detect, monitor, and quantify gene expression in the lungs. These studies have shown that imaging can be used to determine the onset and duration of transgene expression, the effectiveness of different gene delivery systems, and the linearity of vector dose-response relationships. This rapidly developing field can be expected to provide useful new tools with which to study gene expression in transgenic animals and in humans during gene therapy.
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- Sekhar Dharmarajan
- Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Molecular imaging is a rapidly developing multidisciplinary field that combines advances in contrast agent development, instrumentation, and molecular/cell biology to follow cellular and sub-cellular events in intact organisms. Platforms for molecular imaging include radionuclide-based methods, optical methods, and magnetic resonance. To date, molecular imaging studies of the lungs have been used to monitor the effectiveness of gene transfer, neutrophilic inflammation, and cell trafficking. Eventually, the goal will be to translate these new techniques to clinical settings such as cystic fibrosis.
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- Jean-Christophe Richard
- Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Min JJ, Gambhir SS. Gene Therapy Progress and Prospects: Noninvasive imaging of gene therapy in living subjects. Gene Ther 2004; 11:115-25. [PMID: 14712295 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Recent progress in the development of noninvasive imaging technologies should allow molecular imaging to play a major role in the field of gene therapy. These tools have recently been validated in gene therapy models for continuous quantitative monitoring of the location(s), magnitude, and time variation of gene delivery and/or expression. This article reviews the use of radionuclide, magnetic resonance, and optical imaging technologies, as they have been used in imaging gene delivery and gene expression for gene therapy applications. The studies published to date lend support that noninvasive imaging tools will help to accelerate preclinical model validation, as well as allow for clinical monitoring of human gene therapy.
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- J J Min
- Department of Radiology and Bio-X Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5427, USA
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Kumar R, Jana S. Positron emission tomography: an advanced nuclear medicine imaging technique from research to clinical practice. Methods Enzymol 2004; 385:3-19. [PMID: 15130730 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(04)85001-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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- Rakesh Kumar
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, NewDelhi 110029, India
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Blank A, Dunnam CR, Borbat PP, Freed JH. High resolution electron spin resonance microscopy. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2003; 165:116-127. [PMID: 14568522 DOI: 10.1016/s1090-7807(03)00254-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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NMR microscopy is routinely employed in fields of science such as biology, botany, and materials science to observe magnetic parameters and transport phenomena in small scale structures. Despite extensive efforts, the resolution of this method is limited (>10 microm for short acquisition times), and thus cannot answer many key questions in these fields. We show, through theoretical prediction and initial experiments, that ESR microscopy, although much less developed, can improve upon the resolution limits of NMR, and successfully undertake the 1 mum resolution challenge. Our theoretical predictions demonstrate that existing ESR technology, along with advanced imaging probe design (resonator and gradient coils), using solutions of narrow linewidth radicals (the trityl family), should yield 64 x 64 pixels 2D images (with z slice selection) with a resolution of 1 x 1 x 10 microm at approximately 60 GHz in less than 1h of acquisition. Our initial imaging results, conducted by CW ESR at X-band, support these theoretical predictions and already improve upon the previously reported state-of-the-art for 2D ESR image resolution achieving approximately 10 x 10 mum, in just several minutes of acquisition time. We analyze how future progress, which includes improved resonators, increased frequency of measurement, and advanced pulsed techniques, should achieve the goal of micron resolution.
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- Aharon Blank
- National Biomedical Center for Advanced ESR Technology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Nanocrystal in dendron-box: a versatile solution to the chemical, photochemical, and thermal instability of colloidal nanocrystals. CR CHIM 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/j.crci.2003.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Plank C, Anton M, Rudolph C, Rosenecker J, Krötz F. Enhancing and targeting nucleic acid delivery by magnetic force. Expert Opin Biol Ther 2003; 3:745-58. [PMID: 12880375 DOI: 10.1517/14712598.3.5.745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Insufficient contact of inherently highly active nucleic acid delivery systems with target cells is a primary reason for their often observed limited efficacy. Physical methods of targeting can overcome this limitation and reduce the risk of undesired side effects due to non-target site delivery. The authors and others have developed a novel means of physical targeting, exploiting magnetic force acting on nucleic acid vectors associated with magnetic particles in order to mediate the rapid contact of vectors with target cells. Here, the principles of magnetic drug and nucleic acid delivery are reviewed, and the facts and potentials of the technique for research and therapeutic applications are discussed. Magnetically enhanced nucleic acid delivery - magnetofection - is universally applicable to viral and non-viral vectors, is extraordinarily rapid, simple and yields saturation level transfection at low dose in vitro. The method is useful for site-specific vector targeting in vivo. Exploiting the full potential of the technique requires an interdisciplinary research effort in magnetic field physics, magnetic particle chemistry, pharmaceutical formulation and medical application.
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- Christian Plank
- Institute of Experimental Oncology, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675 Munich, Germany.
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Plank C, Schillinger U, Scherer F, Bergemann C, Rémy JS, Krötz F, Anton M, Lausier J, Rosenecker J. The magnetofection method: using magnetic force to enhance gene delivery. Biol Chem 2003; 384:737-47. [PMID: 12817470 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2003.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 281] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In order to enhance and target gene delivery we have previously established a novel method, termed magnetofection, which uses magnetic force acting on gene vectors that are associated with magnetic particles. Here we review the benefits, the mechanism and the potential of the method with regard to overcoming physical limitations to gene delivery. Magnetic particle chemistry and physics are discussed, followed by a detailed presentation of vector formulation and optimization work. While magnetofection does not necessarily improve the overall performance of any given standard gene transfer method in vitro, its major potential lies in the extraordinarily rapid and efficient transfection at low vector doses and the possibility of remotely controlled vector targeting in vivo.
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- Christian Plank
- Institute of Experimental Oncology, Technical University Munich, Ismaninger Str. 22, D-81675 Munich, Germany
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Guo W, Li JJ, Wang YA, Peng X. Luminescent CdSe/CdS core/shell nanocrystals in dendron boxes: superior chemical, photochemical and thermal stability. J Am Chem Soc 2003; 125:3901-9. [PMID: 12656625 DOI: 10.1021/ja028469c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 274] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The surface ligands, generation-3 (G3) dendrons, on each semiconductor nanocrystal were globally cross-linked through ring-closing metathesis (RCM). The global cross-linking of the dendron ligands sealed each nanocrystal in a dendron box, which yielded box-nanocrystals. Although the dendron ligands coated CdSe nanocrystals (CdSe dendron-nanocrystals) were already quite stable, the stability of CdSe box-nanocrystals against chemical, photochemical, and thermal treatments were dramatically improved in comparison to that of the original dendron-nanocrystals. Furthermore, the box structure of the ligands monolayer coupled with the stable inorganic CdSe/CdS core/shell nanocrystals resulted in a class of extremely stable nanocrystal/ligands complexes. The band edge photoluminescence of the core/shell dendron-nanocrystals and box-nanocrystals were partially remained, and could be further brightened through controlled chemical oxidation or photooxidation. Practically, the stability of the box-nanocrystals is sufficient for most fundamental studies and technical applications. The box-nanocrystals may represent a general solution for the commonly encountered instability for many types of colloidal nanocrystals. The size distribution of the empty dendron boxes formed by the dissolution of the inorganic nanocrystals in concentrated HCl was very narrow. The empty boxes as new types of polymer capsules are soluble in solution, mesoporous, and with a very thin but stable peripheral. Those nanometer-sized cavities should be of interest for many purposes in the field of solution host-guest chemistry.
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- Wenzhuo Guo
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701, USA
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Massoud TF, Gambhir SS. Molecular imaging in living subjects: seeing fundamental biological processes in a new light. Genes Dev 2003; 17:545-80. [PMID: 12629038 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1047403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1416] [Impact Index Per Article: 67.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Tarik F Massoud
- The Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Auricchio A, Acton PD, Hildinger M, Louboutin JP, Plössl K, O'Connor E, Kung HF, Wilson JM. In vivo quantitative noninvasive imaging of gene transfer by single-photon emission computerized tomography. Hum Gene Ther 2003; 14:255-61. [PMID: 12639305 DOI: 10.1089/10430340360535805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Systems aimed at detecting gene expression noninvasively in vivo are desirable for evaluating the outcome of gene transfer in clinical trials. Several approaches have been exploited using magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy ((31)P MRS), positron emission tomography (PET), single-photon emission tomography (SPECT), and detection of bioluminescent signals. An ideal system is based on transfer of a marker gene, the activity of which can be detected against a background from the target tissue without interfering with normal physiology or eliciting an immune response. The majority of approaches described to date use genes encoding a nonmammalian protein that can elicit immune responses or a transmembrane receptor as a marker gene whose ectopic expression may cause aberrant signaling in the target cell through binding to endogenous ligands. The dopamine transporter (DAT) is normally expressed at high levels, mainly in the dopaminergic neurons of the central nervous system. We previously synthesized a radioactive ligand, [(99m)Tc]TRODAT-1, that binds with high affinity to the dopamine transporter, allowing for SPECT imaging of the striatum in normal control subjects and individuals affected with Parkinson's disease. Here we describe a strategy to monitor gene transfer based on adeno-associated viral vector (AAV)-mediated transduction of DAT in murine muscle followed by [(99m)Tc]TRODAT-1 imaging by SPECT of cells expressing the transgene. We show that quantitative, noninvasive imaging of gene transfer is successfully achieved in vivo, using a single-photon computed tomography camera. This system employs a reporter gene encoding a mammalian protein that is absent in most tissues, has no enzymatic activity, and does not activate intracellular pathways. This should be useful to monitor gene transfer in the settings of gene therapy.
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- Alberto Auricchio
- Department of Medicine, and the Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Ichikawa T, Högemann D, Saeki Y, Tyminski E, Terada K, Weissleder R, Chiocca EA, Basilion JP. MRI of transgene expression: correlation to therapeutic gene expression. Neoplasia 2002; 4:523-30. [PMID: 12407446 PMCID: PMC1503666 DOI: 10.1038/sj.neo.7900266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2002] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide high-resolution 3D maps of structural and functional information, yet its use of mapping in vivo gene expression has only recently been explored. A potential application for this technology is to noninvasively image transgene expression. The current study explores the latter using a nonregulatable internalizing engineered transferrin receptor (ETR) whose expression can be probed for with a superparamagnetic Tf-CLIO probe. Using an HSV-based amplicon vector system for transgene delivery, we demonstrate that: 1) ETR is a sensitive MR marker gene; 2) several transgenes can be efficiently expressed from a single amplicon; 3) expression of each transgene results in functional gene product; and 4) ETR gene expression correlates with expression of therapeutic genes when the latter are contained within the same amplicon. These data, taken together, suggest that MRI of ETR expression can serve as a surrogate for measuring therapeutic transgene expression.
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- Tomotsugu Ichikawa
- Neurosurgical Service and Molecular Neuro-Oncology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA
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Positron emission tomography (PET) scanning is evolving as a unique tool for drug development in oncology for improving both the efficacy of established treatment and in evaluating novel anticancer agents. As a non-invasive functional imaging modality, PET has an unrivalled sensitivity when monitoring the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs and biochemicals when radiolabelled with short living positron-emitting radioisotopes. This is of particular relevance in assessing newer molecular-targeted therapy where conventional evaluation criteria (maximum tolerated dose and tumour shrinkage for example) may be inappropriate. PET has already been applied to a wide number of drugs to demonstrate activity in vivo from standard chemotherapy such as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) [J Clin Oncol 17 (1999) 1580], to novel molecular agents such as those involved in tumour angiogenesis [Br J Cancer 83 (2000) P6] and antivascular therapy [Proc Annu Meet Am Soc Clin Oncol 19 (2000) 179a]. This review will evaluate the achievements of PET in the drug development process, an approach that promises to facilitate the rapid translation of scientific research into current clinical practice.
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- N Gupta
- Cancer Research UK PET Oncology Group, Section of Cancer Therapeutics, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, MRC Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 ONN, UK
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Benveniste H, Blackband S. MR microscopy and high resolution small animal MRI: applications in neuroscience research. Prog Neurobiol 2002; 67:393-420. [PMID: 12234501 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0082(02)00020-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The application of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in the study of human disease using small animals has steadily evolved over the past two decades and strongly established the fields of "small animal MR imaging" and "MR microscopy." An increasing number of neuroscience related investigations now implement MR microscopy in their experiments. Research areas of growth pertaining to MR microscopy studies are focused on (1). phenotyping of genetically engineered mice models of human neurological diseases and (2). rodent brain atlases. MR microscopy can be performed in vitro on tissue specimens, ex vivo on brain slice preparations and in vivo (typically on rodents). Like most new imaging technologies, MR microscopy is technologically demanding and requires broad expertise. Uniform guidelines or "standards" of a given MR microscopy experiment are non-existent. The main focus therefore of this review will be on biological applications of MR microscopy and the experimental requirements. We also take a critical look at the biological information that small animal (rodent) MR imaging has provided in neuroscience research.
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- Helene Benveniste
- Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Building 490, 30 Bell Avenue, Upton, NY 11793, USA.
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Wang YA, Li JJ, Chen H, Peng X. Stabilization of inorganic nanocrystals by organic dendrons. J Am Chem Soc 2002; 124:2293-8. [PMID: 11878983 DOI: 10.1021/ja016711u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 271] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A series of hydrophilic organic dendron ligands was designed and synthesized for stabilizing high-quality semiconductor and noble metal nanocrystals. The focal point of the dendron ligands is chosen to be a thiol group which is a universal coordinating site for compound semiconductor and noble metal nanocrystals. The methods for binding these dendron ligands onto the surface of the nanocrystals are simple and straightforward. The thin, about 1-2 nm, but closely packed and tangled ligand shell provides sufficient stability for the "dendron-protected nanocrystals" to withstand the rigors of the coupling chemistry and the standard separation/purification techniques. The chemistry presented can be immediately applied for the development of a new generation of biomedical labeling reagents based on high-quality semiconductor nanocrystals. It also provides an alternative path to apply noble metal nanocrystals for developing sensitive detection schemes for chemical and biochemical purposes. The concept may further provide an optimal solution for many other problems encountered in nanocrystal-related research and development, for which the stability of the nanocrystals is a critical issue. Furthermore, the experimental results confirmed that the photochemical stability of colloidal semiconductor and noble metal nanocrystals is the key for developing reliable and reproducible processing chemistry for these nanocrystals.
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- Y Andrew Wang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
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Hillman BJ, Neiman HL. Translating molecular imaging research into radiologic practice: summary of the proceedings of the American College of Radiology Colloquium, April 22-24, 2001. Radiology 2002; 222:19-24. [PMID: 11756700 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2222011530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The American College of Radiology (ACR) convened a "think tank" of experts on aspects of molecular imaging. The purposes of the colloquium were to develop scenarios about how molecular imaging would develop in the future and to make recommendations to the ACR about how to prepare radiologists for this important set of technologies. The ACR provided participants with background materials, as well as a set of possible questions to keep in mind while reading the materials, prior to the meeting. Subjects covered included the science and technology, regulation and diffusion, training and certification, turf and competition, and a survey of current activities in the realm of molecular imaging in which radiologists are involved. This article presents the observations devolving from the colloquium and recommendations to the ACR.
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- Bruce J Hillman
- Department of Radiology, University of Virginia, PO Box 800170, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287-2182, USA
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- Siemens Medical Systems, Nuclear Medicine Group, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195, USA
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Auricchio A, Zhou R, Wilson JM, Glickson JD. In vivo detection of gene expression in liver by 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy employing creatine kinase as a marker gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001; 98:5205-10. [PMID: 11296261 PMCID: PMC33188 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.081508598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In vivo assessment of gene expression is desirable to obtain information on the extent and duration of transduction of tissue after gene delivery. We have developed an in vivo, potentially noninvasive, method for detecting virally mediated gene transfer to the liver. The method employs an adenoviral vector carrying the gene for the brain isozyme of murine creatine kinase (CK-B), an ATP-buffering enzyme expressed mainly in muscle and brain but absent from liver, kidney, and pancreas. Gene expression was monitored by (31)P magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) using the product of the CK enzymatic reaction, phosphocreatine, as an indicator of transfection. The vector was administered into nude mice by tail vein injection, and exogenous creatine was administered in the drinking water and by i.p. injection of 2% creatine solution before (31)P MRS examination, which was performed on surgically exposed livers. A phosphocreatine resonance was detected in livers of mice injected with the vector and was absent from livers of control animals. CK expression was confirmed in the injected animals by Western blot analysis, enzymatic assays, and immunofluorescence measurements. We conclude that the syngeneic enzyme CK can be used as a marker gene for in vivo monitoring of gene expression after virally mediated gene transfer to the liver.
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- A Auricchio
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, Institute for Human Gene Therapy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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