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van den Wildenberg L, Runderkamp BA, Seelen LWF, van Laarhoven HWM, Gosselink MWJM, van der Kemp WJM, Haj Mohammad N, Klomp DWJ, Prompers JJ. Measurement of metabolite levels and treatment-induced changes in hepatic metastases of gastro-esophageal cancer using 7-T phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging. NMR Biomed 2024:e5155. [PMID: 38616046 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.5155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Revised: 03/05/2024] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
Abstract
Methods for early treatment response evaluation to systemic therapy of liver metastases are lacking. Tumor tissue often exhibits an increased ratio of phosphomonoesters to phosphodiesters (PME/PDE), which can be noninvasively measured by phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy (31P MRS), and may be a marker for early therapy response assessment in liver metastases. However, with commonly used 31P surface coils for liver 31P MRS, the liver is not fully covered, and metastases may be missed. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of 31P MRS imaging (31P MRSI) with full liver coverage to assess 31P metabolite levels and chemotherapy-induced changes in liver metastases of gastro-esophageal cancer, using a 31P whole-body birdcage transmit coil in combination with a 31P body receive array at 7 T. 3D 31P MRSI data were acquired in two patients with hepatic metastases of esophageal cancer, before the start of chemotherapy and after 2 (and 9 in patient 2) weeks of chemotherapy. 3D 31P MRSI acquisitions were performed using an integrated 31P whole-body transmit coil in combination with a 16-channel body receive array at 7 T, with a field of view covering the full abdomen and a nominal voxel size of 20-mm isotropic. From the 31P MRSI data, 12 31P metabolite signals were quantified. Prior to chemotherapy initiation, both PMEs, that is, phosphocholine (PC) and phosphoethanolamine (PE), were significantly higher in all metastases compared with the levels previously determined in the liver of healthy volunteers. After 2 weeks of chemotherapy, PC and PE levels remained high or even increased further, resulting in increased PME/PDE ratios compared with healthy liver tissue, in correspondence with the clinical assessment of progressive disease after 2 months of chemotherapy. The suggested approach may present a viable tool for early therapy (non)response assessment of tumor metabolism in patients with liver metastases.
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Surgery, UMC Utrecht Cancer Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Sint Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, Regional Academic Cancer Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Cancer Center Amsterdam, Imaging and Biomarkers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Medical Oncology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Utrecht Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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de Bruijn HS, Mashayekhi V, Schreurs TJ, van Driel PB, Strijkers GJ, van Diest PJ, Lowik CW, Seynhaeve AL, ten Hagen TL, Prompers JJ, van Bergen en Henegouwen PM, Robinson DJ, Oliveira S. Erratum: Acute cellular and vascular responses to photodynamic therapy using EGFR-targeted nanobody-photosensitizer conjugates studied with intravital optical imaging and magnetic resonance imaging: Erratum. Theranostics 2024; 14:1099-1100. [PMID: 38250047 PMCID: PMC10797288 DOI: 10.7150/thno.93248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7150/thno.37949.].
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- Henriette S. de Bruijn
- Center for Optical Diagnostics and Therapy, Dept. of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cell Biology Division, Dept. of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Division of Optical Molecular Imaging, Dept. of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, The Netherlands
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- Dept. of Pathology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Optical Molecular Imaging, Dept. of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, Dept. of Pathology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, Dept. of Pathology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Center for Optical Diagnostics and Therapy, Dept. of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cell Biology Division, Dept. of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Pharmaceutics Division, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Hendriks AD, Veltien A, Voogt IJ, Heerschap A, Scheenen TWJ, Prompers JJ. Glucose versus fructose metabolism in the liver measured with deuterium metabolic imaging. Front Physiol 2023; 14:1198578. [PMID: 37465695 PMCID: PMC10351417 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1198578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/20/2023] Open
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Chronic intake of high amounts of fructose has been linked to the development of metabolic disorders, which has been attributed to the almost complete clearance of fructose by the liver. However, direct measurement of hepatic fructose uptake is complicated by the fact that the portal vein is difficult to access. Here we present a new, non-invasive method to measure hepatic fructose uptake and metabolism with the use of deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) upon administration of [6,6'-2H2]fructose. Using both [6,6'-2H2]glucose and [6,6'-2H2]fructose, we determined differences in the uptake and metabolism of glucose and fructose in the mouse liver with dynamic DMI. The deuterated compounds were administered either by fast intravenous (IV) bolus injection or by slow IV infusion. Directly after IV bolus injection of [6,6'-2H2]fructose, a more than two-fold higher initial uptake and subsequent 2.5-fold faster decay of fructose was observed in the mouse liver as compared to that of glucose after bolus injection of [6,6'-2H2]glucose. In contrast, after slow IV infusion of fructose, the 2H fructose/glucose signal maximum in liver spectra was lower compared to the 2H glucose signal maximum after slow infusion of glucose. With both bolus injection and slow infusion protocols, deuterium labeling of water was faster with fructose than with glucose. These observations are in line with a higher extraction and faster turnover of fructose in the liver, as compared with glucose. DMI with [6,6'-2H2]glucose and [6,6'-2H2]fructose could potentially contribute to a better understanding of healthy human liver metabolism and aberrations in metabolic diseases.
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- Arjan D. Hendriks
- Center of Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Imaging (Radiology), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Imaging (Radiology), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Imaging (Radiology), Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Center of Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Caspi Y, Pantazopoulou CK, Prompers JJ, Pieterse CMJ, Hulshoff Pol H, Kajala K. Why did glutamate, GABA, and melatonin become intercellular signalling molecules in plants? eLife 2023; 12:e83361. [PMID: 37338964 DOI: 10.7554/elife.83361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Accepted: 05/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023] Open
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Intercellular signalling is an indispensable part of multicellular life. Understanding the commonalities and differences in how signalling molecules function in two remote branches of the tree of life may shed light on the reasons these molecules were originally recruited for intercellular signalling. Here we review the plant function of three highly studied animal intercellular signalling molecules, namely glutamate, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and melatonin. By considering both their signalling function in plants and their broader physiological function, we suggest that molecules with an original function as key metabolites or active participants in reactive ion species scavenging have a high chance of becoming intercellular signalling molecules. Naturally, the evolution of machinery to transduce a message across the plasma membrane is necessary. This fact is demonstrated by three other well-studied animal intercellular signalling molecules, namely serotonin, dopamine, and acetylcholine, for which there is currently no evidence that they act as intercellular signalling molecules in plants.
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- Yaron Caspi
- Institute of Environmental Biology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Institute of Environmental Biology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Institute of Environmental Biology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Nam KM, Gursan A, Bhogal AA, Wijnen JP, Klomp DWJ, Prompers JJ, Hendriks AD. Deuterium echo-planar spectroscopic imaging (EPSI) in the human liver in vivo at 7 T. Magn Reson Med 2023. [PMID: 37154391 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Revised: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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PURPOSE To demonstrate the feasibility of deuterium echo-planar spectroscopic imaging (EPSI) to accelerate 3D deuterium metabolic imaging in the human liver at 7 T. METHODS A deuterium EPSI sequence, featuring a Hamming-weighted k-space acquisition pattern for the phase-encoding directions, was implemented. Three-dimensional deuterium EPSI and conventional MRSI were performed on a water/acetone phantom and in vivo in the human liver at natural abundance. Moreover, in vivo deuterium EPSI measurements were acquired after oral administration of deuterated glucose. The effect of acquisition time on SNR was evaluated by retrospectively reducing the number of averages. RESULTS The SNR of natural abundance deuterated water signal in deuterium EPSI was 6.5% and 5.9% lower than that of MRSI in the phantom and in vivo experiments, respectively. In return, the acquisition time of in vivo EPSI data could be reduced retrospectively to 2 min, beyond the minimal acquisition time of conventional MRSI (of 20 min in this case), while still leaving sufficient SNR. Three-dimensional deuterium EPSI, after administration of deuterated glucose, enabled monitoring of hepatic glucose dynamics with full liver coverage, a spatial resolution of 20 mm isotropic, and a temporal resolution of 9 min 50 s, which could retrospectively be shortened to 2 min. CONCLUSION In this work, we demonstrate the feasibility of accelerated 3D deuterium metabolic imaging of the human liver using deuterium EPSI. The acceleration obtained with EPSI can be used to increase temporal and/or spatial resolution, which will be valuable to study tissue metabolism of deuterated compounds over time.
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- Kyung Min Nam
- Center for Image Sciences, Department of High Field MR Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, Department of High Field MR Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, Department of High Field MR Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, Department of High Field MR Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, Department of High Field MR Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, Department of High Field MR Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, Department of High Field MR Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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van den Wildenberg L, Gursan A, Seelen LWF, van der Velden TA, Gosselink MWJM, Froeling M, van der Kemp WJM, Klomp DWJ, Prompers JJ. In vivo phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging of the whole human liver at 7 T using a phosphorus whole-body transmit coil and 16-channel receive array: Repeatability and effects of principal component analysis-based denoising. NMR Biomed 2023; 36:e4877. [PMID: 36400716 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Revised: 11/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Quantitative three-dimensional (3D) imaging of phosphorus (31 P) metabolites is potentially a promising technique with which to assess the progression of liver disease and monitor therapy response. However, 31 P magnetic resonance spectroscopy has a low sensitivity and commonly used 31 P surface coils do not provide full coverage of the liver. This study aimed to overcome these limitations by using a 31 P whole-body transmit coil in combination with a 16-channel 31 P receive array at 7 T. Using this setup, we determined the repeatability of whole-liver 31 P magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (31 P MRSI) in healthy subjects and assessed the effects of principal component analysis (PCA)-based denoising on the repeatability parameters. In addition, spatial variations of 31 P metabolites within the liver were analyzed. 3D 31 P MRSI data of the liver were acquired with a nominal voxel size of 20 mm isotropic in 10 healthy volunteers twice on the same day. Data were reconstructed without denoising, and with PCA-based denoising before or after channel combination. From the test-retest data, repeatability parameters for metabolite level quantification were determined for 12 31 P metabolite signals. On average, 31 P MR spectra from 100 ± 25 voxels in the liver were analyzed. Only voxels with contamination from skeletal muscle or the gall bladder were excluded and no voxels were discarded based on (low) signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Repeatability for most quantified 31 P metabolite levels in the liver was good to excellent, with an intrasubject variability below 10%. PCA-based denoising increased the SNR ~ 3-fold, but did not improve the repeatability for mean liver 31 P metabolite quantification with the fitting constraints used. Significant spatial heterogeneity of various 31 P metabolite levels within the liver was observed, with marked differences for the phosphomonoester and phosphodiester metabolites between the left and right lobe. In conclusion, using a 31 P whole-body transmit coil in combination with a 16-channel 31 P receive array at 7 T allowed 31 P MRSI acquisitions with full liver coverage and good to excellent repeatability.
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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van der Kemp WJM, Grinde MT, Malvik JO, van Laarhoven HWM, Prompers JJ, Klomp DWJ, Burgering B, Bathen TF, Moestue SA. Metabolic profiling of colorectal cancer organoids: A comparison between high-resolution magic angle spinning magnetic resonance spectroscopy and solution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of polar extracts. NMR Biomed 2023; 36:e4882. [PMID: 36451530 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Patient-derived cancer cells cultured in vitro are a cornerstone of cancer metabolism research. More recently, the introduction of organoids has provided the research community with a more versatile model system. Physiological structure and organization of the cell source tissue are maintained in organoids, representing a closer link to in vivo tumor models. High-resolution magic angle spinning magnetic resonance spectroscopy (HR MAS MRS) is a commonly applied analytical approach for metabolic profiling of intact tissue, but its use has not been reported for organoids. The aim of the current work was to compare the performance of HR MAS MRS and extraction-based nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in metabolic profiling of wild-type and tumor progression organoids (TPOs) from human colon cancer, and further to investigate how the sequentially increased genetic alterations of the TPOs affect the metabolic profile. Sixteen metabolites were reliably identified and quantified both in spectra based on NMR of extracts and HR MAS MRS of intact organoids. The metabolite concentrations from the two approaches were highly correlated (r = 0.94), and both approaches were able to capture the systematic changes in metabolic features introduced by the genetic alterations characteristic of colorectal cancer progression (e.g., increased levels of lactate and decreased levels of myo-inositol and phosphocholine with an increasing number of mutations). The current work highlights that HR MAS MRS is a well-suited method for metabolic profiling of intact organoids, with the additional benefit that the nondestructive nature of HR MAS enables subsequent recovery of the organoids for further analyses based on nucleic acids or proteins.
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- Wybe J M van der Kemp
- Division of Imaging and Oncology, University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Imaging and Oncology, University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Imaging and Oncology, University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Molecular Medicine, Molecular Cancer Research, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Pharmacy, Nord University, Bodø, Norway
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Seelen LWF, van den Wildenberg L, van der Kemp WJM, Mohamed Hoesein FAA, Mohammad NH, Molenaar IQ, van Santvoort HC, Prompers JJ, Klomp DWJ. Prospective of 31 P MR Spectroscopy in Hepatopancreatobiliary Cancer: A Systematic Review of the Literature. J Magn Reson Imaging 2023; 57:1144-1155. [PMID: 35916278 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.28372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2022] [Revised: 07/13/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The incidence of liver and pancreatic cancer is rising. Patients benefit from current treatments, but there are limitations in the evaluation of (early) response to treatment. Tumor metabolic alterations can be measured noninvasively with phosphorus (31 P) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). PURPOSE To conduct a quantitative analysis of the available literature on 31 P MRS performed in hepatopancreatobiliary cancer and to provide insight into its current and potential for therapy (non-) response assessment. POPULATION Patients with hepatopancreatobiliary cancer. FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE: 31 P MRS. ASSESSMENT The PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane library databases were systematically searched for studies published to 17 March 17, 2022. All 31 P MRS studies in hepatopancreatobiliary cancer reporting 31 P metabolite levels were included. STATISTICAL TESTS Relative differences in 31 P metabolite levels/ratios between patients before therapy and healthy controls, and the relative changes in 31 P metabolite levels/ratios in patients before and after therapy were determined. RESULTS The search yielded 10 studies, comprising 301 subjects, of whom 132 (44%) healthy volunteers and 169 (56%) patients with liver cancer of various etiology. To date, 31 P MRS has not been applied in pancreatic cancer. In liver cancer, alterations in levels of 31 P metabolites involved in cell proliferation (phosphomonoesters [PMEs] and phosphodiesters [PDEs]) and energy metabolism (ATP and inorganic phosphate [Pi]) were observed. In particular, liver tumors were associated with elevations of PME/PDE and PME/Pi compared to healthy liver tissue, although there was a broad variety among studies (elevations of 2%-267% and 21%-233%, respectively). Changes in PME/PDE in liver tumors upon therapy were substantial, yet very heterogeneous and both decreases and increases were observed, whereas PME/Pi was consistently decreased after therapy in all studies (-13% to -76%). DATA CONCLUSION 31 P MRS has great potential for treatment monitoring in oncology. Future studies are needed to correlate the changes in 31 P metabolite levels in hepatopancreatobiliary tumors with treatment response. EVIDENCE LEVEL 3 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: Stage 2.
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- Leonard W F Seelen
- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Department of Surgery, UMC Utrecht Cancer Center and St Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein: Regional Academic Cancer Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, UMC Utrecht Cancer Center and St Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein: Regional Academic Cancer Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, UMC Utrecht Cancer Center, Regional Academic Cancer Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, UMC Utrecht Cancer Center and St Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein: Regional Academic Cancer Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, UMC Utrecht Cancer Center and St Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein: Regional Academic Cancer Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Gursan A, Hendriks AD, Welting D, de Jong PA, Klomp DWJ, Prompers JJ. Deuterium body array for the simultaneous measurement of hepatic and renal glucose metabolism and gastric emptying with dynamic 3D deuterium metabolic imaging at 7 T. NMR Biomed 2023:e4926. [PMID: 36929629 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2022] [Revised: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) is a novel noninvasive method to assess tissue metabolism and organ (patho)physiology in vivo using deuterated substrates, such as [6,6'-2 H2 ]-glucose. The liver and kidneys play a central role in whole-body glucose homeostasis, and in type 2 diabetes, both hepatic and renal glucose metabolism are dysregulated. Diabetes is also associated with gastric emptying abnormalities. In this study, we developed a four-channel 2 H transmit/receive body array coil for DMI in the human abdomen at 7 T and assessed its performance. In addition, the feasibility of simultaneously measuring gastric emptying, and hepatic and renal glucose uptake and metabolism with dynamic 3D DMI upon administration of deuterated glucose, was investigated. Simulated and measured B1 + patterns were in good agreement. The intrasession variability of the natural abundance deuterated water signal in the liver and right kidney, measured in nine healthy volunteers, was 5.6% ± 0.9% and 4.9% ± 0.7%, respectively. Dynamic 3D DMI scans with oral administration of [6,6'-2 H2 ]-glucose showed similar kinetics of deuterated glucose appearance and disappearance in the liver and kidney. The measured gastric emptying half time was 80 ± 10 min, which is in good agreement with scintigraphy measurements. In conclusion, DMI with oral administration of [6,6'-2 H2 ]-glucose enables simultaneous assessment of gastric emptying and liver and kidney glucose uptake and metabolism. When applied in patients with diabetes, this approach may advance our understanding of the interplay between disturbances in liver and kidney glucose uptake and metabolism and gastric emptying, at a detail that cannot be achieved by any other method.
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- Ayhan Gursan
- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Gursan A, Froeling M, Hendriks AD, Welting D, Kentgens APM, Klomp DWJ, Prompers JJ. Residual quadrupolar couplings observed in 7 Tesla deuterium MR spectra of skeletal muscle. Magn Reson Med 2021; 87:1165-1173. [PMID: 34657308 PMCID: PMC9297863 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Purpose Deuterium metabolic imaging could potentially be used to investigate metabolism in skeletal muscle noninvasively. However, skeletal muscle is a tissue with a high degree of spatial organization. In this study, we investigated the effect of incomplete motional averaging on the naturally abundant deuterated water signal in 7 Tesla deuterium spectra of the lower leg muscles and the dependence on the angle between the muscle fibers and the main magnetic field B0, as determined by DTI. Methods Natural abundance deuterium MRSI measurements of the right lower leg muscles were performed at 7 Tesla. Three subjects were scanned in a supine position, with the right leg parallel with the B0 field. One subject was scanned twice; during the second scan, the subject was laying on his right side and the right knee was bent such that the angle between the right lower leg and B0 was approximately 45°. DTI was performed in the same subjects in the same positions at 3 Tesla to determine muscle fiber angles. Results We observed splittings in the natural abundance deuterated water signal. The size of the splittings varied between different muscles in the lower leg but were mostly similar among subjects for each muscle. The splittings depended on the orientation of the muscle fibers with respect to the main magnetic field B0. Conclusion Partial molecular alignment in skeletal muscle leads to residual deuteron quadrupolar couplings in deuterated water, the size of which depends on the angle between the muscle fibers and B0.
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- Ayhan Gursan
- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Froeling M, Prompers JJ, Klomp DWJ, van der Velden TA. PCA denoising and Wiener deconvolution of 31 P 3D CSI data to enhance effective SNR and improve point spread function. Magn Reson Med 2021; 85:2992-3009. [PMID: 33522635 PMCID: PMC7986807 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.28654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Revised: 11/10/2020] [Accepted: 12/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Purpose This study evaluates the performance of 2 processing methods, that is, principal component analysis‐based denoising and Wiener deconvolution, to enhance the quality of phosphorus 3D chemical shift imaging data. Methods Principal component analysis‐based denoising increases the SNR while maintaining spectral information. Wiener deconvolution reduces the FWHM of the voxel point spread function, which is increased by Hamming filtering or Hamming‐weighted acquisition. The proposed methods are evaluated using simulated and in vivo 3D phosphorus chemical shift imaging data by 1) visual inspection of the spatial signal distribution; 2) SNR calculation of the PCr peak; and 3) fitting of metabolite basis functions. Results With the optimal order of processing steps, we show that the effective SNR of in vivo phosphorus 3D chemical shift imaging data can be increased. In simulations, we show we can preserve phosphorus‐containing metabolite peaks that had an SNR < 1 before denoising. Furthermore, using Wiener deconvolution, we were able to reduce the FWHM of the voxel point spread function with only partially reintroducing Gibb‐ringing artifacts while maintaining the SNR. After data processing, fitting of the phosphorus‐containing metabolite signals improved. Conclusion In this study, we have shown that principal component analysis‐based denoising in combination with regularized Wiener deconvolution allows increasing the effective spectral SNR of in vivo phosphorus 3D chemical shift imaging data, with reduction of the FWHM of the voxel point spread function. Processing increased the effective SNR by at least threefold compared to Hamming weighted acquired data and minimized voxel bleeding. With these methods, fitting of metabolite amplitudes became more robust with decreased fitting residuals.
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- Martijn Froeling
- Department of Radiology, Imaging Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Xavier A, Arteaga de Castro C, Andia ME, Luijten PR, Klomp DW, Fillmer A, Prompers JJ. Metabolite cycled liver 1 H MRS on a 7 T parallel transmit system. NMR Biomed 2020; 33:e4343. [PMID: 32515151 PMCID: PMC7379278 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Revised: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/12/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Single-voxel 1 H MRS in body applications often suffers from respiratory and other motion induced phase and frequency shifts, which lead to incoherent averaging and hence to suboptimal results. METHODS Here we show the application of metabolite cycling (MC) for liver STEAM-localized 1 H MRS on a 7 T parallel transmit system, using eight transmit-receive fractionated dipole antennas with 16 additional, integrated receive loops. MC-STEAM measurements were made in six healthy, lean subjects and compared with STEAM measurements using VAPOR water suppression. Measurements were performed during free breathing and during synchronized breathing, for which the subjects did breathe in between the MRS acquisitions. Both intra-session repeatability and inter-session reproducibility of liver lipid quantification with MC-STEAM and VAPOR-STEAM were determined. RESULTS The preserved water signal in MC-STEAM allowed for robust phase and frequency correction of individual acquisitions before averaging, which resulted in in vivo liver spectra that were of equal quality when measurements were made with free breathing or synchronized breathing. Intra-session repeatability and inter-session reproducibility of liver lipid quantification were better for MC-STEAM than for VAPOR-STEAM. This may also be explained by the more robust phase and frequency correction of the individual MC-STEAM acquisitions as compared with the VAPOR-STEAM acquisitions, for which the low-signal-to-noise ratio lipid signals had to be used for the corrections. CONCLUSION Non-water-suppressed MC-STEAM on a 7 T system with parallel transmit is a promising approach for 1 H MRS applications in the body that are affected by motion, such as in the liver, and yields better repeatability and reproducibility compared with water-suppressed measurements.
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- Aline Xavier
- Department of Radiology, Imaging DivisionUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
- Biomedical Imaging Center, Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileSantiagoChile
- Millennium Nucleus for Cardiovascular Magnetic ResonanceSantiagoChile
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- Biomedical Imaging Center, Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileSantiagoChile
- Millennium Nucleus for Cardiovascular Magnetic ResonanceSantiagoChile
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging DivisionUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging DivisionUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging DivisionUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
- Physikalisch‐Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)BerlinGermany
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging DivisionUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtThe Netherlands
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de Graaf RA, Hendriks AD, Klomp DWJ, Kumaragamage C, Welting D, de Castro CSA, Brown PB, McIntyre S, Nixon TW, Prompers JJ, De Feyter HM. On the magnetic field dependence of deuterium metabolic imaging. NMR Biomed 2020; 33:e4235. [PMID: 31879985 PMCID: PMC7141779 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Revised: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 11/10/2019] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) is a novel MR-based method to spatially map metabolism of deuterated substrates such as [6,6'-2 H2 ]-glucose in vivo. Compared with traditional 13 C-MR-based metabolic studies, the MR sensitivity of DMI is high due to the larger 2 H magnetic moment and favorable T1 and T2 relaxation times. Here, the magnetic field dependence of DMI sensitivity and transmit efficiency is studied on phantoms and rat brain postmortem at 4, 9.4 and 11.7 T. The sensitivity and spectral resolution on human brain in vivo are investigated at 4 and 7 T before and after an oral dose of [6,6'-2 H2 ]-glucose. For small animal surface coils (Ø 30 mm), the experimentally measured sensitivity and transmit efficiency scale with the magnetic field to a power of +1.75 and -0.30, respectively. These are in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions made from the principle of reciprocity for a coil noise-dominant regime. For larger human surface coils (Ø 80 mm), the sensitivity scales as a +1.65 power. The spectral resolution increases linearly due to near-constant linewidths. With optimal multireceiver arrays the acquisition of DMI at a nominal 1 mL spatial resolution is feasible at 7 T.
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- Robin A. de Graaf
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Imaging Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Meyerspeer M, Boesch C, Cameron D, Dezortová M, Forbes SC, Heerschap A, Jeneson JA, Kan HE, Kent J, Layec G, Prompers JJ, Reyngoudt H, Sleigh A, Valkovič L, Kemp GJ. 31 P magnetic resonance spectroscopy in skeletal muscle: Experts' consensus recommendations. NMR Biomed 2020; 34:e4246. [PMID: 32037688 PMCID: PMC8243949 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2019] [Revised: 12/01/2019] [Accepted: 12/02/2019] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
Abstract
Skeletal muscle phosphorus-31 31 P MRS is the oldest MRS methodology to be applied to in vivo metabolic research. The technical requirements of 31 P MRS in skeletal muscle depend on the research question, and to assess those questions requires understanding both the relevant muscle physiology, and how 31 P MRS methods can probe it. Here we consider basic signal-acquisition parameters related to radio frequency excitation, TR, TE, spectral resolution, shim and localisation. We make specific recommendations for studies of resting and exercising muscle, including magnetisation transfer, and for data processing. We summarise the metabolic information that can be quantitatively assessed with 31 P MRS, either measured directly or derived by calculations that depend on particular metabolic models, and we give advice on potential problems of interpretation. We give expected values and tolerable ranges for some measured quantities, and minimum requirements for reporting acquisition parameters and experimental results in publications. Reliable examination depends on a reproducible setup, standardised preconditioning of the subject, and careful control of potential difficulties, and we summarise some important considerations and potential confounders. Our recommendations include the quantification and standardisation of contraction intensity, and how best to account for heterogeneous muscle recruitment. We highlight some pitfalls in the assessment of mitochondrial function by analysis of phosphocreatine (PCr) recovery kinetics. Finally, we outline how complementary techniques (near-infrared spectroscopy, arterial spin labelling, BOLD and various other MRI and 1 H MRS measurements) can help in the physiological/metabolic interpretation of 31 P MRS studies by providing information about blood flow and oxygen delivery/utilisation. Our recommendations will assist in achieving the fullest possible reliable picture of muscle physiology and pathophysiology.
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- Martin Meyerspeer
- Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical EngineeringMedical University of ViennaViennaAustria
- High Field MR CenterMedical University of ViennaViennaAustria
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- DBMR and DIPRUniversity and InselspitalBernSwitzerland
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- Norwich Medical SchoolUniversity of East AngliaNorwichUK
- C. J. Gorter Center for High Field MRI, Department of RadiologyLeiden University Medical CentreLeidenthe Netherlands
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- MR‐Unit, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional RadiologyInstitute for Clinical and Experimental MedicinePragueCzech Republic
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- Department of Physical TherapyUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFloridaUSA
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear MedicineRadboud University Medical CenterNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Department of RadiologyAmsterdam University Medical Center|site AMCAmsterdamthe Netherlands
- Cognitive Neuroscience CenterUniversity Medical Center GroningenGroningenthe Netherlands
- Center for Child Development and Exercise, Wilhelmina Children's HospitalUniversity Medical Center UtrechtUtrechtthe Netherlands
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- C. J. Gorter Center for High Field MRI, Department of RadiologyLeiden University Medical CentreLeidenthe Netherlands
- Duchenne CenterThe Netherlands
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- Department of KinesiologyUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstMAUSA
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- Department of KinesiologyUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstMAUSA
- Institute for Applied Life SciencesUniversity of MassachusettsAmherstMAUSA
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- NMR Laboratory, Neuromuscular Investigation CenterInstitute of Myology AIM‐CEAParisFrance
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- Wolfson Brain Imaging CentreUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
- Wellcome Trust‐MRC Institute of Metabolic ScienceUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
- NIHR/Wellcome Trust Clinical Research FacilityCambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCambridgeUK
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- Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR), RDM Cardiovascular Medicine, BHF Centre of Research ExcellenceUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
- Department of Imaging MethodsInstitute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of SciencesBratislavaSlovakia
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- Department of Musculoskeletal Biology and Liverpool Magnetic Resonance Imaging Centre (LiMRIC)University of LiverpoolLiverpoolUK
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de Bruijn HS, Mashayekhi V, Schreurs TJL, van Driel PBAA, Strijkers GJ, van Diest PJ, Lowik CWGM, Seynhaeve ALB, Hagen TLMT, Prompers JJ, Henegouwen PMPVBE, Robinson DJ, Oliveira S. Acute cellular and vascular responses to photodynamic therapy using EGFR-targeted nanobody-photosensitizer conjugates studied with intravital optical imaging and magnetic resonance imaging. Theranostics 2020; 10:2436-2452. [PMID: 32089747 PMCID: PMC7019176 DOI: 10.7150/thno.37949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 09/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Targeted photodynamic therapy (PDT) has the potential to selectively damage tumor tissue and to increase tumor vessel permeability. Here we characterize the tissue biodistribution of two EGFR-targeted nanobody-photosensitizer conjugates (NB-PS), the monovalent 7D12-PS and the biparatopic 7D12-9G8-PS. In addition, we report on the local and acute phototoxic effects triggered by illumination of these NB-PS which have previously shown to lead to extensive tumor damage. Methods: Intravital microscopy and the skin-fold chamber model, containing OSC-19-luc2-cGFP tumors, were used to investigate: a) the fluorescence kinetics and distribution, b) the vascular response and c) the induction of necrosis after illumination at 1 or 24 h post administration of 7D12-PS and 7D12-9G8-PS. In addition, dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) of a solid tumor model was used to investigate the microvascular status 2 h after 7D12-PS mediated PDT. Results: Image analysis showed significant tumor colocalization for both NB-PS which was higher for 7D12-9G8-PS. Intravital imaging showed clear tumor cell membrane localization 1 and 2 h after administration of 7D12-9G8-PS, and fluorescence in or close to endothelial cells in normal tissue for both NB-PS. PDT lead to vasoconstriction and leakage of tumor and normal tissue vessels in the skin-fold chamber model. DCE-MRI confirmed the reduction of tumor perfusion after 7D12-PS mediated PDT. PDT induced extensive tumor necrosis and moderate normal tissue damage, which was similar for both NB-PS conjugates. This was significantly reduced when illumination was performed at 24 h compared to 1 h after administration. Discussion: Although differences were observed in distribution of the two NB-PS conjugates, both led to similar necrosis. Clearly, the response to PDT using NB-PS conjugates is the result of a complex mixture of tumor cell responses and vascular effects, which is likely to be necessary for a maximally effective treatment.
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- Henriette S de Bruijn
- Center for Optical Diagnostics and Therapy, Dept. of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cell Biology Division, Dept. of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Division of Optical Molecular Imaging, Dept. of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, The Netherlands
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- Dept. of Pathology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Optical Molecular Imaging, Dept. of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, Dept. of Pathology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, Dept. of Pathology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Center for Optical Diagnostics and Therapy, Dept. of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cell Biology Division, Dept. of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Pharmaceutics Division, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Abdurrachim D, Manders E, Nicolay K, Mayoux E, Prompers JJ. Single dose of empagliflozin increases in vivo cardiac energy status in diabetic db/db mice. Cardiovasc Res 2019; 114:1843-1844. [PMID: 30295756 DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvy246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Desiree Abdurrachim
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, Cardiometabolic Diseases Research, Biberach an der Riss, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.,Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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van Weeghel M, Abdurrachim D, Nederlof R, Argmann CA, Houtkooper RH, Hagen J, Nabben M, Denis S, Ciapaite J, Kolwicz SC, Lopaschuk GD, Auwerx J, Nicolay K, Des Rosiers C, Wanders RJ, Zuurbier CJ, Prompers JJ, Houten SM. Increased cardiac fatty acid oxidation in a mouse model with decreased malonyl-CoA sensitivity of CPT1B. Cardiovasc Res 2019; 114:1324-1334. [PMID: 29635338 DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvy089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2018] [Accepted: 04/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Aims Mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation (FAO) is an important energy provider for cardiac work and changes in cardiac substrate preference are associated with different heart diseases. Carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1B (CPT1B) is thought to perform the rate limiting enzyme step in FAO and is inhibited by malonyl-CoA. The role of CPT1B in cardiac metabolism has been addressed by inhibiting or decreasing CPT1B protein or after modulation of tissue malonyl-CoA metabolism. We assessed the role of CPT1B malonyl-CoA sensitivity in cardiac metabolism. Methods and results We generated and characterized a knock in mouse model expressing the CPT1BE3A mutant enzyme, which has reduced sensitivity to malonyl-CoA. In isolated perfused hearts, FAO was 1.9-fold higher in Cpt1bE3A/E3A hearts compared with Cpt1bWT/WT hearts. Metabolomic, proteomic and transcriptomic analysis showed increased levels of malonylcarnitine, decreased concentration of CPT1B protein and a small but coordinated downregulation of the mRNA expression of genes involved in FAO in Cpt1bE3A/E3A hearts, all of which aim to limit FAO. In vivo assessment of cardiac function revealed only minor changes, cardiac hypertrophy was absent and histological analysis did not reveal fibrosis. Conclusions Malonyl-CoA-dependent inhibition of CPT1B plays a crucial role in regulating FAO rate in the heart. Chronic elevation of FAO has a relatively subtle impact on cardiac function at least under baseline conditions.
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- Michel van Weeghel
- Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Institute for Gastroenterology and Metabolism (AG&M), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, Box 1498, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Institute for Gastroenterology and Metabolism (AG&M), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, Box 1498, New York, NY, USA
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Institute for Gastroenterology and Metabolism (AG&M), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Pediatrics and Systems Biology, Center for Energy Metabolism and Ageing, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Mitochondria and Metabolism Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Laboratory of Integrative and Systems Physiology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- Montreal Heart Institute Research Center and Department of Nutrition, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Amsterdam Institute for Gastroenterology and Metabolism (AG&M), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Pediatrics, Academic Medical Center, Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.,Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, Box 1498, New York, NY, USA
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Verkaik M, Oranje M, Abdurrachim D, Goebel M, Gam Z, Prompers JJ, Helmes M, Ter Wee PM, van der Velden J, Kuster DW, Vervloet MG, Eringa EC. High Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 concentrations in experimental renal failure impair calcium handling in cardiomyocytes. Physiol Rep 2019; 6:e13591. [PMID: 29611320 PMCID: PMC5880876 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.13591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2017] [Accepted: 12/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The overwhelming majority of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) die prematurely before reaching end‐stage renal disease, mainly due to cardiovascular causes, of which heart failure is the predominant clinical presentation. We hypothesized that CKD‐induced increases of plasma FGF23 impair cardiac diastolic and systolic function. To test this, mice were subjected to 5/6 nephrectomy (5/6Nx) or were injected with FGF23 for seven consecutive days. Six weeks after surgery, plasma FGF23 was higher in 5/6Nx mice compared to sham mice (720 ± 31 vs. 256 ± 3 pg/mL, respectively, P = 0.034). In cardiomyocytes isolated from both 5/6Nx and FGF23 injected animals the rise of cytosolic calcium during systole was slowed (−13% and −19%, respectively) as was the decay of cytosolic calcium during diastole (−15% and −21%, respectively) compared to controls. Furthermore, both groups had similarly decreased peak cytosolic calcium content during systole. Despite lower cytosolic calcium contents in CKD or FGF23 pretreated animals, no changes were observed in contractile parameters of cardiomyocytes between the groups. Expression of calcium handling proteins and cardiac troponin I phosphorylation were similar between groups. Blood pressure, the heart weight:tibia length ratio, α‐MHC/β‐MHC ratio and ANF mRNA expression, and systolic and diastolic function as measured by MRI did not differ between groups. In conclusion, the rapid, CKD‐induced rise in plasma FGF23 and the similar decrease in cardiomyocyte calcium transients in modeled kidney disease and following 1‐week treatment with FGF23 indicate that FGF23 partly mediates cardiomyocyte dysfunction in CKD.
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- Melissa Verkaik
- Department of Nephrology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Physiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nephrology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nephrology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Khlebnikov V, van der Kemp WJM, Hoogduin H, Klomp DWJ, Prompers JJ. Analysis of chemical exchange saturation transfer contributions from brain metabolites to the Z-spectra at various field strengths and pH. Sci Rep 2019; 9:1089. [PMID: 30705355 PMCID: PMC6355971 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37295-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2018] [Accepted: 11/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) exploits the chemical exchange of labile protons of an endogenous or exogenous compound with water to image the former indirectly through the water signal. Z-spectra of the brain have traditionally been analyzed for two most common saturation phenomena: downfield amide proton transfer (APT) and upfield nuclear Overhauser enhancement (NOE). However, a great body of brain metabolites, many of interest in neurology and oncology, contributes to the downfield saturation in Z-spectra. The extraction of these “hidden” metabolites from Z-spectra requires careful design of CEST sequences and data processing models, which is only possible by first obtaining CEST signatures of the brain metabolites possessing labile protons. In this work, we measured exchange rates of all major-for-CEST brain metabolites in the physiological pH range at 37 °C. Analysis of their contributions to Z-spectra revealed that regardless of the main magnetic field strength and pH, five main contributors, i.e. myo-inositol, creatine, phosphocreatine, glutamate, and mobile (poly)peptides, account for ca. 90% of downfield CEST effect. The fundamental CEST parameters presented in this study can be exploited in the design of novel CEST sequences and Z-spectra processing models, which will enable simultaneous and quantitative CEST imaging of multiple metabolites: multicolor CEST.
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- Vitaliy Khlebnikov
- Department of Radiology, Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Radiology, Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Abdurrachim D, Nabben M, Hoerr V, Kuhlmann MT, Bovenkamp P, Ciapaite J, Geraets IME, Coumans W, Luiken JJFP, Glatz JFC, Schäfers M, Nicolay K, Faber C, Hermann S, Prompers JJ. Diabetic db/db mice do not develop heart failure upon pressure overload: a longitudinal in vivo PET, MRI, and MRS study on cardiac metabolic, structural, and functional adaptations. Cardiovasc Res 2018; 113:1148-1160. [PMID: 28549111 DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvx100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Aims Heart failure is associated with altered myocardial substrate metabolism and impaired cardiac energetics. Comorbidities like diabetes may influence the metabolic adaptations during heart failure development. We quantified to what extent changes in substrate preference, lipid accumulation, and energy status predict the longitudinal development of hypertrophy and failure in the non-diabetic and the diabetic heart. Methods and results Transverse aortic constriction (TAC) was performed in non-diabetic (db/+) and diabetic (db/db) mice to induce pressure overload. Magnetic resonance imaging, 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), 1H MRS, and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (PET) were applied to measure cardiac function, energy status, lipid content, and glucose uptake, respectively. In vivo measurements were complemented with ex vivo techniques of high-resolution respirometry, proteomics, and western blotting to elucidate the underlying molecular pathways. In non-diabetic mice, TAC induced progressive cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction, which correlated with increased protein kinase D-1 (PKD1) phosphorylation and increased glucose uptake. These changes in glucose utilization preceded a reduction in cardiac energy status. At baseline, compared with non-diabetic mice, diabetic mice showed normal cardiac function, higher lipid content and mitochondrial capacity for fatty acid oxidation, and lower PKD1 phosphorylation, glucose uptake, and energetics. Interestingly, TAC affected cardiac function only mildly in diabetic mice, which was accompanied by normalization of phosphorylated PKD1, glucose uptake, and cardiac energy status. Conclusion The cardiac metabolic adaptations in diabetic mice seem to prevent the heart from failing upon pressure overload, suggesting that restoring the balance between glucose and fatty acid utilization is beneficial for cardiac function.
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- Desiree Abdurrachim
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.,Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospital of Münster, Münster, Germany.,Institute of Medical Microbiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospital of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics and Systems Biology Center for Energy Metabolism and Ageing, Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- European Institute for Molecular Imaging-EIMI, Münster, Germany.,Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.,Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospital of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- European Institute for Molecular Imaging-EIMI, Münster, Germany.,Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Abdurrachim D, Prompers JJ. Evaluation of cardiac energetics by non-invasive 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2017; 1864:1939-1948. [PMID: 29175056 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2017.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Revised: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 11/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Alterations in myocardial energy metabolism have been implicated in the pathophysiology of cardiac diseases such as heart failure and diabetic cardiomyopathy. 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a powerful tool to investigate cardiac energetics non-invasively in vivo, by detecting phosphorus (31P)-containing metabolites involved in energy supply and buffering. In this article, we review the historical development of cardiac 31P MRS, the readouts used to assess cardiac energetics from 31P MRS, and how 31P MRS studies have contributed to the understanding of cardiac energy metabolism in heart failure and diabetes. This article is part of a Special issue entitled Cardiac adaptations to obesity, diabetes and insulin resistance, edited by Professors Jan F.C. Glatz, Jason R.B. Dyck and Christine Des Rosiers.
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- Desiree Abdurrachim
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Functional Metabolism Group, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Leenders GJ, Smeets MB, van den Boomen M, Berben M, Nabben M, van Strijp D, Strijkers GJ, Prompers JJ, Arslan F, Nicolay K, Vandoorne K. Statins Promote Cardiac Infarct Healing by Modulating Endothelial Barrier Function Revealed by Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2017; 38:186-194. [PMID: 29146749 DOI: 10.1161/atvbaha.117.310339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The endothelium has a crucial role in wound healing, acting as a barrier to control transit of leukocytes. Endothelial barrier function is impaired in atherosclerosis preceding myocardial infarction (MI). Besides lowering lipids, statins modulate endothelial function. Here, we noninvasively tested whether statins affect permeability at the inflammatory (day 3) and the reparative (day 7) phase of infarct healing post-MI using contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). APPROACH AND RESULTS Noninvasive permeability mapping by MRI after MI in C57BL/6, atherosclerotic ApoE-/-, and statin-treated ApoE-/- mice was correlated to subsequent left ventricular outcome by structural and functional cardiac MRI. Ex vivo histology, flow cytometry, and quantitative polymerase chain reaction were performed on infarct regions. Increased vascular permeability at ApoE-/- infarcts was observed compared with C57BL/6 infarcts, predicting enhanced left ventricular dilation at day 21 post-MI by MRI volumetry. Statin treatment improved vascular barrier function at ApoE-/- infarcts, indicated by reduced permeability. The infarcted tissue of ApoE-/- mice 3 days post-MI displayed an unbalanced Vegfa(vascular endothelial growth factor A)/Angpt1 (angiopoetin-1) expression ratio (explaining leakage-prone vessels), associated with higher amounts of CD45+ leukocytes and inflammatory LY6Chi monocytes. Statins reversed the unbalanced Vegfa/Angpt1 expression, normalizing endothelial barrier function at the infarct and blocking the augmented recruitment of inflammatory leukocytes in statin-treated ApoE-/- mice. CONCLUSIONS Statins lowered permeability and reduced the transit of unfavorable inflammatory leukocytes into the infarcted tissue, consequently improving left ventricular outcome.
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- Geert J Leenders
- From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (G.J.L., M.v.d.B., M.N., G.J.S., J.J.P., K.N., K.V.); Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology (M.B.S.) and Department of Cardiology (F.A.), University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department Precision and Decentralized Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (M.B., D.v.S.); Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (G.J.S.); and Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (F.A.)
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- From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (G.J.L., M.v.d.B., M.N., G.J.S., J.J.P., K.N., K.V.); Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology (M.B.S.) and Department of Cardiology (F.A.), University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department Precision and Decentralized Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (M.B., D.v.S.); Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (G.J.S.); and Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (F.A.)
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- From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (G.J.L., M.v.d.B., M.N., G.J.S., J.J.P., K.N., K.V.); Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology (M.B.S.) and Department of Cardiology (F.A.), University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department Precision and Decentralized Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (M.B., D.v.S.); Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (G.J.S.); and Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (F.A.)
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- From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (G.J.L., M.v.d.B., M.N., G.J.S., J.J.P., K.N., K.V.); Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology (M.B.S.) and Department of Cardiology (F.A.), University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department Precision and Decentralized Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (M.B., D.v.S.); Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (G.J.S.); and Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (F.A.)
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- From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (G.J.L., M.v.d.B., M.N., G.J.S., J.J.P., K.N., K.V.); Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology (M.B.S.) and Department of Cardiology (F.A.), University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department Precision and Decentralized Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (M.B., D.v.S.); Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (G.J.S.); and Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (F.A.)
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- From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (G.J.L., M.v.d.B., M.N., G.J.S., J.J.P., K.N., K.V.); Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology (M.B.S.) and Department of Cardiology (F.A.), University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department Precision and Decentralized Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (M.B., D.v.S.); Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (G.J.S.); and Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (F.A.)
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- From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (G.J.L., M.v.d.B., M.N., G.J.S., J.J.P., K.N., K.V.); Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology (M.B.S.) and Department of Cardiology (F.A.), University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department Precision and Decentralized Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (M.B., D.v.S.); Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (G.J.S.); and Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (F.A.)
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- From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (G.J.L., M.v.d.B., M.N., G.J.S., J.J.P., K.N., K.V.); Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology (M.B.S.) and Department of Cardiology (F.A.), University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department Precision and Decentralized Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (M.B., D.v.S.); Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (G.J.S.); and Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (F.A.)
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- From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (G.J.L., M.v.d.B., M.N., G.J.S., J.J.P., K.N., K.V.); Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology (M.B.S.) and Department of Cardiology (F.A.), University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department Precision and Decentralized Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (M.B., D.v.S.); Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (G.J.S.); and Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (F.A.)
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- From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (G.J.L., M.v.d.B., M.N., G.J.S., J.J.P., K.N., K.V.); Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology (M.B.S.) and Department of Cardiology (F.A.), University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department Precision and Decentralized Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (M.B., D.v.S.); Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (G.J.S.); and Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (F.A.)
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- From the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (G.J.L., M.v.d.B., M.N., G.J.S., J.J.P., K.N., K.V.); Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology (M.B.S.) and Department of Cardiology (F.A.), University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department Precision and Decentralized Diagnostics, Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands (M.B., D.v.S.); Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (G.J.S.); and Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (F.A.).
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Schreurs TJL, Jacobs I, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ, Strijkers GJ. Detection of Treatment Success after Photodynamic Therapy Using Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Am J Cancer Res 2017; 7:4643-4657. [PMID: 29187893 PMCID: PMC5706089 DOI: 10.7150/thno.20418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2017] [Accepted: 08/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Early evaluation of response to therapy is crucial for selecting the optimal therapeutic follow-up strategy for cancer patients. PDT is a photochemistry-based treatment modality that induces tumor tissue damage by cytotoxic oxygen radicals, generated by a pre-injected photosensitive drug upon light irradiation of tumor tissue. Vascular shutdown is an important mechanism of tumor destruction for most PDT protocols. In this study, we assessed the suitability of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) to evaluate treatment efficacy within a day after photodynamic therapy (PDT), using the tumor vascular response as a biomarker for treatment success. Methods: DCE-MRI at 7 T was used to measure the micro-vascular status of subcutaneous colon carcinoma tumors before, right after, and 24 h after PDT in mice. Maps of the area under the curve (AUC) of the contrast agent concentration were calculated from the DCE-MRI data. Besides, tracer kinetic parameters including Ktrans were calculated using the standard Tofts-Kermode model. Viability of tumor tissue at 24 h after PDT was assessed by histological analysis. Results: PDT led to drastic decreases in AUC and Ktrans or complete loss of enhancement immediately after treatment, indicating a vascular shutdown in treated tumor regions. Histological analysis demonstrated that the treatment induced extensive necrosis in the tumors. For PDT-treated tumors, the viable tumor fraction showed a strong correlation (ρ ≥ 0.85) with the tumor fraction with Ktrans > 0.05 min-1 right after PDT. The viable tumor fraction also correlated strongly with the enhanced fraction, the average Ktrans , and the fraction with Ktrans > 0.05 min-1 at 24 h after PDT. Images of the viability stained tumor sections were registered to the DCE-MRI data, demonstrating a good spatial agreement between regions with Ktrans > 0.05 min-1 and viable tissue regions. Finally, 3D post-treatment viability detection maps were constructed for the tumors of three mice by applying a threshold (0.05 min-1) to Ktrans at 24 h after PDT. As a proof of principle, these maps were compared to actual tumor progression after one week. Complete tumor response was correctly assessed in one animal, while residual viable tumor tissue was detected in the other two at the locations where residual tumor tissue was observed after one week. Conclusion: This study demonstrates that DCE-MRI is an effective tool for early evaluation of PDT tumor treatment.
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Janssens S, Ciapaite J, Wolters JC, van Riel NA, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ. An In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study of the Effects of Caloric and Non-Caloric Sweeteners on Liver Lipid Metabolism in Rats. Nutrients 2017; 9:nu9050476. [PMID: 28489050 PMCID: PMC5452206 DOI: 10.3390/nu9050476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Revised: 04/26/2017] [Accepted: 05/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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We aimed to elucidate the effects of caloric and non-caloric sweeteners on liver lipid metabolism in rats using in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and to determine their roles in the development of liver steatosis. Wistar rats received normal chow and either normal drinking water, or solutions containing 13% (w/v) glucose, 13% fructose, or 0.4% aspartame. After 7 weeks, in vivo hepatic dietary lipid uptake and de novo lipogenesis were assessed with proton-observed, carbon-13-edited MRS combined with 13C-labeled lipids and 13C-labeled glucose, respectively. The molecular basis of alterations in hepatic liver metabolism was analyzed in detail ex vivo using immunoblotting and targeted quantitative proteomics. Both glucose and fructose feeding increased adiposity, but only fructose induced hepatic lipid accumulation. In vivo MRS showed that this was not caused by increased hepatic uptake of dietary lipids, but could be attributed to an increase in de novo lipogenesis. Stimulation of lipogenesis by fructose was confirmed by a strong upregulation of lipogenic enzymes, which was more potent than with glucose. The non-caloric sweetener aspartame did not significantly affect liver lipid content or metabolism. In conclusion, liquid fructose more severely affected liver lipid metabolism in rats than glucose, while aspartame had no effect.
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- Sharon Janssens
- Biomedical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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- Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.
- Systems Biology Centre for Energy Metabolism and Ageing, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Systems Biology Centre for Energy Metabolism and Ageing, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.
- Department of Pharmacy, Analytical Biochemistry, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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- Biomedical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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- Biomedical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Nabben M, Schmitz JPJ, Ciapaite J, le Clercq CMP, van Riel NA, Haak HR, Nicolay K, de Coo IFM, Smeets H, Praet SF, van Loon LJ, Prompers JJ. Dietary nitrate does not reduce oxygen cost of exercise or improve muscle mitochondrial function in patients with mitochondrial myopathy. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2017; 312:R689-R701. [DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00264.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2016] [Revised: 02/03/2017] [Accepted: 02/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
Muscle weakness and exercise intolerance negatively affect the quality of life of patients with mitochondrial myopathy. Short-term dietary nitrate supplementation has been shown to improve exercise performance and reduce oxygen cost of exercise in healthy humans and trained athletes. We investigated whether 1 wk of dietary inorganic nitrate supplementation decreases the oxygen cost of exercise and improves mitochondrial function in patients with mitochondrial myopathy. Ten patients with mitochondrial myopathy (40 ± 5 yr, maximal whole body oxygen uptake = 21.2 ± 3.2 ml·min−1·kg body wt−1, maximal work load = 122 ± 26 W) received 8.5 mg·kg body wt−1·day−1 inorganic nitrate (~7 mmol) for 8 days. Whole body oxygen consumption at 50% of the maximal work load, in vivo skeletal muscle oxidative capacity (evaluated from postexercise phosphocreatine recovery using 31P-magnetic resonance spectroscopy), and ex vivo mitochondrial oxidative capacity in permeabilized skinned muscle fibers (measured with high-resolution respirometry) were determined before and after nitrate supplementation. Despite a sixfold increase in plasma nitrate levels, nitrate supplementation did not affect whole body oxygen cost during submaximal exercise. Additionally, no beneficial effects of nitrate were found on in vivo or ex vivo muscle mitochondrial oxidative capacity. This is the first time that the therapeutic potential of dietary nitrate for patients with mitochondrial myopathy was evaluated. We conclude that 1 wk of dietary nitrate supplementation does not reduce oxygen cost of exercise or improve mitochondrial function in the group of patients tested.
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- Miranda Nabben
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Máxima Medical Center, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Ageing and Long-Term Care, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and
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- Department of Human Biology and Movement Sciences, NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Verkaik M, Oranje M, Gam Z, Abdurrachim D, Prompers JJ, Najafi A, Kuster DW, Al Sharkway MA, Helmes M, ter Wee PM, van der Velden J, Eringa EC, Vervloet MG. MP345CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE DISTURBS CARDIAC CALCIUM HANDLING DUE TO HIGH FGF23 LEVELSFGF23 LEVELS. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfw190.02] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Janssens S, Heemskerk MM, van den Berg SA, van Riel NA, Nicolay K, Willems van Dijk K, Prompers JJ. Effects of low-stearate palm oil and high-stearate lard high-fat diets on rat liver lipid metabolism and glucose tolerance. Nutr Metab (Lond) 2015; 12:57. [PMID: 26691906 PMCID: PMC4683731 DOI: 10.1186/s12986-015-0053-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 12/11/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Background Excess consumption of energy-dense, high-fat Western diets contributes to the development of obesity and obesity-related disorders, such as fatty liver disease. However, not only the quantity but also the composition of dietary fat may play a role in the development of liver steatosis. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of low-stearate palm oil and high-stearate lard high-fat diets on in vivo liver lipid metabolism. Methods Wistar rats were fed with either normal chow (CON), a high-fat diet based on palm oil (HFP), or a high-fat diet based on lard (HFL). After 10 weeks of diet, magnetic resonance spectroscopy was applied for the in vivo determination of intrahepatocellular lipid content and the uptake and turnover of dietary fat after oral administration of 13C-labeled lipids. Derangements in liver lipid metabolism were further assessed by measuring hepatic very-low density lipoprotein (VLDL) secretion and ex vivo respiratory capacity of liver mitochondria using fat-derived substrates. In addition, whole-body and hepatic glucose tolerance were determined with an intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test. Results Both high-fat diets induced liver lipid accumulation (p < 0.001), which was accompanied by a delayed uptake and/or slower turnover of dietary fat in the liver (p < 0.01), but without any change in VLDL secretion rates. Surprisingly, liver lipid content was higher in HFP than in HFL (p < 0.05), despite the increased fatty acid oxidative capacity in isolated liver mitochondria of HFP animals (p < 0.05). In contrast, while both high-fat diets induced whole-body glucose intolerance, only HFL impaired hepatic glucose tolerance. Conclusion High-fat diets based on palm oil and lard similarly impair the handling of dietary lipids in the liver, but only the high-fat lard diet induces hepatic glucose intolerance.
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- Sharon Janssens
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands ; Present address: Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands
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- Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands ; Department of Medicine, division Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Janssens S, Jonkers RAM, Groen AK, Nicolay K, van Loon LJC, Prompers JJ. Effects of acute exercise on lipid content and dietary lipid uptake in liver and skeletal muscle of lean and diabetic rats. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2015; 309:E874-83. [PMID: 26419590 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00292.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 09/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Insulin resistance is associated with ectopic lipid accumulation. Physical activity improves insulin sensitivity, but the impact of exercise on lipid handling in insulin-resistant tissues remains to be elucidated. The present study characterizes the effects of acute exercise on lipid content and dietary lipid partitioning in liver and skeletal muscle of lean and diabetic rats by use of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). After baseline measurements, rats were randomized to exercise or no-exercise groups. A subset of animals was subjected to MRS directly after 1 h of treadmill running for measurement of total intrahepatocellular lipid (IHCL) and intramyocellular lipid (IMCL) content (n=7 lean and diabetic rats). The other animals were administered 13C-labeled lipids orally after treadmill visit (with or without exercise) followed by MRS measurements after 4 and 24 h to determine the 13C enrichment of IHCL and IMCL (n=8 per group). Total IHCL and IMCL content were fivefold higher in diabetic vs. lean rats (P<0.001). Exercise did not significantly affect IHCL content but reduced IMCL by 25±7 and 33±4% in lean and diabetic rats (P<0.05), respectively. Uptake of dietary lipids in liver and muscle was 2.3-fold greater in diabetic vs. lean rats (P<0.05). Prior exercise did not significantly modulate dietary lipid uptake into muscle, but in liver of both lean and diabetic rats, lipid uptake was 44% reduced after acute exercise (P<0.05). In conclusion, IMCL but not IHCL represents a viable substrate source during exercise in both lean and diabetic rats, and exercise differentially affects dietary lipid uptake in muscle and liver.
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- Sharon Janssens
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; The Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology, Den Haag, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; and Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- NUTRIM, School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Department of Human Movement Sciences, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;
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Wessels B, van den Broek NMA, Ciapaite J, Houten SM, Wanders RJA, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ. Carnitine supplementation in high-fat diet-fed rats does not ameliorate lipid-induced skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction in vivo. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2015; 309:E670-8. [PMID: 26286868 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00144.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2015] [Accepted: 08/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Muscle lipid overload and the associated accumulation of lipid intermediates play an important role in the development of insulin resistance. Carnitine insufficiency is a common feature of insulin-resistant states and might lead to incomplete fatty acid oxidation and impaired export of lipid intermediates out of the mitochondria. The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that carnitine supplementation reduces high-fat diet-induced lipotoxicity, improves muscle mitochondrial function, and ameliorates insulin resistance. Wistar rats were fed either normal chow or a high-fat diet for 15 wk. One group of high-fat diet-fed rats was supplemented with 300 mg·kg(-1)·day(-1) L-carnitine during the last 8 wk. Muscle mitochondrial function was measured in vivo by (31)P magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and ex vivo by high-resolution respirometry. Muscle lipid status was determined by (1)H MRS (intramyocellular lipids) and tandem mass spectrometry (acylcarnitines). High-fat diet feeding induced insulin resistance and was associated with decreases in muscle and blood free carnitine, elevated levels of muscle lipids and acylcarnitines, and an increased number of muscle mitochondria that showed an improved capacity to oxidize fat-derived substrates when tested ex vivo. This was, however, not accompanied by an increase in muscle oxidative capacity in vivo, indicating that in vivo mitochondrial function was compromised. Despite partial normalization of muscle and blood free carnitine content, carnitine supplementation did not induce improvements in muscle lipid status, in vivo mitochondrial function, or insulin sensitivity. Carnitine insufficiency, therefore, does not play a major role in high-fat diet-induced muscle mitochondrial dysfunction in vivo.
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- Bart Wessels
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; and
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; and
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; and
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- Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Departments of Pediatrics and Clinical Chemistry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Departments of Pediatrics and Clinical Chemistry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; and
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; and
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Bakermans AJ, Abdurrachim D, van Nierop BJ, Koeman A, van der Kroon I, Baartscheer A, Schumacher CA, Strijkers GJ, Houten SM, Zuurbier CJ, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ. In vivo mouse myocardial (31)P MRS using three-dimensional image-selected in vivo spectroscopy (3D ISIS): technical considerations and biochemical validations. NMR Biomed 2015; 28:1218-1227. [PMID: 26269430 PMCID: PMC4573916 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2015] [Revised: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 07/09/2015] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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(31)P MRS provides a unique non-invasive window into myocardial energy homeostasis. Mouse models of cardiac disease are widely used in preclinical studies, but the application of (31)P MRS in the in vivo mouse heart has been limited. The small-sized, fast-beating mouse heart imposes challenges regarding localized signal acquisition devoid of contamination with signal originating from surrounding tissues. Here, we report the implementation and validation of three-dimensional image-selected in vivo spectroscopy (3D ISIS) for localized (31)P MRS of the in vivo mouse heart at 9.4 T. Cardiac (31)P MR spectra were acquired in vivo in healthy mice (n = 9) and in transverse aortic constricted (TAC) mice (n = 8) using respiratory-gated, cardiac-triggered 3D ISIS. Localization and potential signal contamination were assessed with (31)P MRS experiments in the anterior myocardial wall, liver, skeletal muscle and blood. For healthy hearts, results were validated against ex vivo biochemical assays. Effects of isoflurane anesthesia were assessed by measuring in vivo hemodynamics and blood gases. The myocardial energy status, assessed via the phosphocreatine (PCr) to adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) ratio, was approximately 25% lower in TAC mice compared with controls (0.76 ± 0.13 versus 1.00 ± 0.15; P < 0.01). Localization with one-dimensional (1D) ISIS resulted in two-fold higher PCr/ATP ratios than measured with 3D ISIS, because of the high PCr levels of chest skeletal muscle that contaminate the 1D ISIS measurements. Ex vivo determinations of the myocardial PCr/ATP ratio (0.94 ± 0.24; n = 8) confirmed the in vivo observations in control mice. Heart rate (497 ± 76 beats/min), mean arterial pressure (90 ± 3.3 mmHg) and blood oxygen saturation (96.2 ± 0.6%) during the experimental conditions of in vivo (31)P MRS were within the normal physiological range. Our results show that respiratory-gated, cardiac-triggered 3D ISIS allows for non-invasive assessments of in vivo mouse myocardial energy homeostasis with (31)P MRS under physiological conditions.
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- Adrianus J. Bakermans
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Experimental Cardiology, Heart Failure Research Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Experimental Cardiology, Heart Failure Research Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Department of Clinical Chemistry, and Department of Pediatrics, Emma Children’s Hospital, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Bakermans AJ, Abdurrachim D, Moonen RPM, Motaal AG, Prompers JJ, Strijkers GJ, Vandoorne K, Nicolay K. Small animal cardiovascular MR imaging and spectroscopy. Prog Nucl Magn Reson Spectrosc 2015; 88-89:1-47. [PMID: 26282195 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2015.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2014] [Revised: 03/09/2015] [Accepted: 03/09/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The use of MR imaging and spectroscopy for studying cardiovascular disease processes in small animals has increased tremendously over the past decade. This is the result of the remarkable advances in MR technologies and the increased availability of genetically modified mice. MR techniques provide a window on the entire timeline of cardiovascular disease development, ranging from subtle early changes in myocardial metabolism that often mark disease onset to severe myocardial dysfunction associated with end-stage heart failure. MR imaging and spectroscopy techniques play an important role in basic cardiovascular research and in cardiovascular disease diagnosis and therapy follow-up. This is due to the broad range of functional, structural and metabolic parameters that can be quantified by MR under in vivo conditions non-invasively. This review describes the spectrum of MR techniques that are employed in small animal cardiovascular disease research and how the technological challenges resulting from the small dimensions of heart and blood vessels as well as high heart and respiratory rates, particularly in mice, are tackled.
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- Adrianus J Bakermans
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Abdurrachim D, Luiken JJFP, Nicolay K, Glatz JFC, Prompers JJ, Nabben M. Good and bad consequences of altered fatty acid metabolism in heart failure: evidence from mouse models. Cardiovasc Res 2015; 106:194-205. [PMID: 25765936 DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvv105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2014] [Accepted: 02/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The shift in substrate preference away from fatty acid oxidation (FAO) towards increased glucose utilization in heart failure has long been interpreted as an oxygen-sparing mechanism. Inhibition of FAO has therefore evolved as an accepted approach to treat heart failure. However, recent data indicate that increased reliance on glucose might be detrimental rather than beneficial for the failing heart. This review discusses new insights into metabolic adaptations in heart failure. A particular focus lies on data obtained from mouse models with modulations of cardiac FA metabolism at different levels of the FA metabolic pathway and how these differently affect cardiac function. Based on studies in which these mouse models were exposed to ischaemic and non-ischaemic heart failure, we discuss whether and when modulations in FA metabolism are protective against heart failure.
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- Desiree Abdurrachim
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, High Tech Campus 11, 5656 AE, PO BOX 513, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, High Tech Campus 11, 5656 AE, PO BOX 513, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, High Tech Campus 11, 5656 AE, PO BOX 513, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, High Tech Campus 11, 5656 AE, PO BOX 513, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Wessels B, Ciapaite J, van den Broek NMA, Houten SM, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ. Pioglitazone treatment restores in vivo muscle oxidative capacity in a rat model of diabetes. Diabetes Obes Metab 2015; 17:52-60. [PMID: 25200673 DOI: 10.1111/dom.12388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2014] [Revised: 08/27/2014] [Accepted: 09/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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AIM To determine the effect of pioglitazone treatment on in vivo and ex vivo muscle mitochondrial function in a rat model of diabetes. METHODS Both the lean, healthy rats and the obese, diabetic rats are Zucker Diabetic Fatty (ZDF) rats. The homozygous fa/fa ZDF rats are obese and diabetic. The heterozygous fa/+ ZDF rats are lean and healthy. Diabetic Zucker Diabetic Fatty rats were treated with either pioglitazone (30 mg/kg/day) or water as a control (n = 6 per group), for 2 weeks. In vivo ¹H and ³¹P magnetic resonance spectroscopy was performed on skeletal muscle to assess intramyocellular lipid (IMCL) content and muscle oxidative capacity, respectively. Ex vivo muscle mitochondrial respiratory capacity was evaluated using high-resolution respirometry. In addition, several markers of mitochondrial content were determined. RESULTS IMCL content was 14-fold higher and in vivo muscle oxidative capacity was 26% lower in diabetic rats compared with lean rats, which was, however, not caused by impairments of ex vivo mitochondrial respiratory capacity or a lower mitochondrial content. Pioglitazone treatment restored in vivo muscle oxidative capacity in diabetic rats to the level of lean controls. This amelioration was not accompanied by an increase in mitochondrial content or ex vivo mitochondrial respiratory capacity, but rather was paralleled by an improvement in lipid homeostasis, that is lowering of plasma triglycerides and muscle lipid and long-chain acylcarnitine content. CONCLUSION Diminished in vivo muscle oxidative capacity in diabetic rats results from mitochondrial lipid overload and can be alleviated by redirecting the lipids from the muscle into adipose tissue using pioglitazone treatment.
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- B Wessels
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical NMR, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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Abdurrachim D, Ciapaite J, Wessels B, Nabben M, Luiken JJ, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ. Cardiac diastolic dysfunction in high-fat diet fed mice is associated with lipotoxicity without impairment of cardiac energetics in vivo. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2014; 1842:1525-37. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2014.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2014] [Revised: 07/04/2014] [Accepted: 07/23/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Bakermans AJ, Abdurrachim D, Geraedts TR, Houten SM, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ. In vivo proton T1 relaxation times of mouse myocardial metabolites at 9.4 T. Magn Reson Med 2014; 73:2069-74. [PMID: 24962369 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2014] [Revised: 05/07/2014] [Accepted: 06/06/2014] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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PURPOSE Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1) H-MRS) for quantitative in vivo assessment of mouse myocardial metabolism requires accurate acquisition timing to minimize motion artifacts and corrections for T1 -dependent partial saturation effects. In this study, mouse myocardial water and metabolite T1 relaxation time constants were quantified. METHODS Cardiac-triggered and respiratory-gated PRESS-localized (1) H-MRS was employed at 9.4 T to acquire signal from a 4-µL voxel in the septum of healthy mice (n = 10) while maintaining a steady state of magnetization using dummy scans during respiratory gates. Signal stability was assessed via standard deviations (SD) of zero-order phases and amplitudes of water spectra. Saturation-recovery experiments were performed to determine T1 values. RESULTS Phase SD did not vary for different repetition times (TR), and was 13.1° ± 4.5°. Maximal amplitude SD was 14.2% ± 5.1% at TR = 500 ms. Myocardial T1 values (mean ± SD) were quantified for water (1.71 ± 0.25 s), taurine (2.18 ± 0.62 s), trimethylamine from choline-containing compounds and carnitine (1.67 ± 0.25 s), creatine-methyl (1.34 ± 0.19 s), triglyceride-methylene (0.60 ± 0.15 s), and triglyceride-methyl (0.90 ± 0.17 s) protons. CONCLUSION This work provides in vivo quantifications of proton T1 values for mouse myocardial water and metabolites at 9.4 T.
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- Adrianus J Bakermans
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Department of Clinical Chemistry, and Department of Pediatrics, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Wessels B, Ciapaite J, van den Broek NMA, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ. Metformin impairs mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle of both lean and diabetic rats in a dose-dependent manner. PLoS One 2014; 9:e100525. [PMID: 24950069 PMCID: PMC4065055 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2014] [Accepted: 05/28/2014] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Metformin is a widely prescribed drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Previous studies have demonstrated in vitro that metformin specifically inhibits Complex I of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. This seems contraindicative since muscle mitochondrial dysfunction has been linked to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. However, its significance for in vivo skeletal muscle mitochondrial function has yet to be elucidated. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of metformin on in vivo and ex vivo skeletal muscle mitochondrial function in a rat model of diabetes. Healthy (fa/+) and diabetic (fa/fa) Zucker diabetic fatty rats were treated by oral gavage with metformin dissolved in water (30, 100 or 300 mg/kg bodyweight/day) or water as a control for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks of treatment, muscle oxidative capacity was assessed in vivo using 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy and ex vivo by measuring oxygen consumption in isolated mitochondria using high-resolution respirometry. Two weeks of treatment with metformin impaired in vivo muscle oxidative capacity in a dose-dependent manner, both in healthy and diabetic rats. Whereas a dosage of 30 mg/kg/day had no significant effect, in vivo oxidative capacity was 21% and 48% lower after metformin treatment at 100 and 300 mg/kg/day, respectively, independent of genotype. High-resolution respirometry measurements demonstrated a similar dose-dependent effect of metformin on ex vivo mitochondrial function. In conclusion, metformin compromises in vivo and ex vivo muscle oxidative capacity in Zucker diabetic fatty rats in a dose-dependent manner.
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- Bart Wessels
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, Centre for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Prompers JJ, Wessels B, Kemp GJ, Nicolay K. MITOCHONDRIA: investigation of in vivo muscle mitochondrial function by 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2014; 50:67-72. [PMID: 24569118 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2014.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2013] [Revised: 02/06/2014] [Accepted: 02/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The most important function of mitochondria is the production of energy in the form of ATP. The socio-economic impact of human diseases that affect skeletal muscle mitochondrial function is growing, and improving their clinical management critically depends on the development of non-invasive assays to assess mitochondrial function and monitor the effects of interventions. 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy provides two approaches that have been used to assess in vivo ATP synthesis in skeletal muscle: measuring Pi→ATP exchange flux using saturation transfer in resting muscle, and measuring phosphocreatine recovery kinetics after exercise. However, Pi→ATP exchange does not represent net mitochondrial ATP synthesis flux and has no simple relationship with mitochondrial function. Post-exercise phosphocreatine recovery kinetics, on the other hand, yield reliable measures of muscle mitochondrial capacity in vivo, whose ability to define the site of functional defects is enhanced by combination with other non-invasive techniques.
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- Jeanine J Prompers
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Musculoskeletal Biology and Magnetic Resonance & Image Analysis Research Centre, University of Liverpool, UK
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- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Bakermans AJ, van Weeghel M, Denis S, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ, Houten SM. Carnitine supplementation attenuates myocardial lipid accumulation in long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase knockout mice. J Inherit Metab Dis 2013; 36:973-81. [PMID: 23563854 DOI: 10.1007/s10545-013-9604-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2013] [Revised: 03/13/2013] [Accepted: 03/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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PURPOSE Elevation of long-chain acylcarnitine levels is a hallmark of long-chain mitochondrial β-oxidation (FAO) disorders, and can be accompanied by secondary carnitine deficiency. To restore free carnitine levels, and to increase myocardial export of long-chain fatty acyl-CoA esters, supplementation of L-carnitine in patients has been proposed. However, carnitine supplementation is controversial, because it may enhance the potentially lipotoxic buildup of long-chain acylcarnitines in the FAO-deficient heart. In this longitudinal study, we investigated the effects of carnitine supplementation in an animal model of long-chain FAO deficiency, the long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCAD) knockout (KO) mouse. METHODS Cardiac size and function, and triglyceride (TG) levels were quantified using proton magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) in LCAD KO and wild-type (WT) mice. Carnitine was supplemented orally for 4 weeks starting at 5 weeks of age. Non-supplemented animals served as controls. In vivo data were complemented with ex vivo biochemical assays. RESULTS LCAD KO mice displayed cardiac hypertrophy and elevated levels of myocardial TG compared to WT mice. Carnitine supplementation lowered myocardial TG, normalizing myocardial TG levels in LCAD KO mice. Furthermore, carnitine supplementation did not affect cardiac performance and hypertrophy, or induce an accumulation of potentially toxic long-chain acylcarnitines in the LCAD KO heart. CONCLUSION This study lends support to the proposed beneficial effect of carnitine supplementation alleviating toxicity by exporting acylcarnitines out of the FAO-deficient myocardium, rather than to the concern about a potentially detrimental effect of supplementation-induced production of lipotoxic long-chain acylcarnitines.
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- Adrianus J Bakermans
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Bakermans AJ, Dodd MS, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ, Tyler DJ, Houten SM. Myocardial energy shortage and unmet anaplerotic needs in the fasted long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase knockout mouse. Cardiovasc Res 2013; 100:441-9. [PMID: 24042017 DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvt212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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AIMS The aim of this animal study is to assess fasting-induced changes in myocardial substrate metabolism and energy status as a consequence of mitochondrial long-chain fatty acid β-oxidation deficiency, using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). METHODS AND RESULTS Carbon-13 ((13)C) MRS of hyperpolarized [1-(13)C]pyruvate was used to assess in vivo pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) activity in fed and fasted wild-type (WT) mice and long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase knockout (LCAD KO) mice. PDH activity decreased after fasting in both genotypes, but was 2.7-fold higher in fasted LCAD KO mice compared with fasted WT mice. Incorporation of the (13)C label into the myocardial malate and aspartate pools in fasted LCAD KO mice demonstrates enhanced activity of anaplerotic pathways in fasted LCAD KO hearts. These findings were corroborated by ex vivo assays revealing partially depleted pools of citric acid cycle intermediates in fasted LCAD KO myocardium, suggesting an increased, but unmet need for anaplerosis. The in vivo myocardial energy status, assessed using phosphorous-31 ((31)P) MRS, was lower in fasted LCAD KO mice than in fasted WT mice. CONCLUSION This study revealed that the heart of fasted LCAD KO mice has an elevated reliance on glucose oxidation, in combination with an unmet demand for myocardial anaplerosis. Due to a lack of substrate availability, the sustained myocardial glucose uptake and PDH activity in LCAD KO mice are ineffective to maintain metabolic homeostasis during fasting, which is reflected by an impaired myocardial energy status in fasted LCAD KO mice.
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- Adrianus J Bakermans
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Verdijk LB, Dirks ML, Snijders T, Prompers JJ, Beelen M, Jonkers RAM, Thijssen DHJ, Hopman MTE, Van Loon LJC. Reduced satellite cell numbers with spinal cord injury and aging in humans. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2013; 44:2322-30. [PMID: 22776875 DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e3182667c2e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Both sarcopenia and spinal cord injury (SCI) are characterized by the loss of skeletal muscle mass and function. Despite obvious similarities in atrophy between both models, differences in muscle fiber size and satellite cell content may exist on a muscle fiber type-specific level. METHODS In the present study, we compared skeletal muscle fiber characteristics between wheelchair-dependent young males with SCI (n = 8, 32 ± 4 yr), healthy elderly males (n = 8, 75 ± 2 yr), and young controls (n = 8, 31 ± 3 yr). Muscle biopsies were collected to determine skeletal muscle fiber type composition, fiber size, and satellite cell content. RESULTS Severe atrophy and a shift toward approximately 90% Type II muscle fibers were observed in muscle obtained from males with SCI. Muscle fiber size was substantially smaller in both the SCI (Types I and II fibers) and elderly subjects (Type II fibers) when compared with the controls. Satellite cell content was substantially lower in the wheelchair-dependent SCI subjects in both the Types I and II muscle fibers (0.049 ± 0.019 and 0.050 ± 0.005 satellite cells per fiber, respectively) when compared with the young controls (0.104 ± 0.011 and 0.117 ± 0.009 satellite cells per fiber, respectively). In the elderly, the number of satellite cells was lower in the Type II muscle fibers only (0.042 ± 0.005 vs 0.117 ± 0.009 satellite cells per fiber in the elderly vs young controls, respectively). CONCLUSION This is the first study to show that muscle fiber atrophy as observed with SCI (Types I and II fibers) and aging (Type II fibers) is accompanied by a muscle fiber type-specific reduction in satellite cell content in humans.
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- Lex B Verdijk
- NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Department of Human Movement Sciences, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Motaal AG, Coolen BF, Abdurrachim D, Castro RM, Prompers JJ, Florack LMJ, Nicolay K, Strijkers GJ. Accelerated high-frame-rate mouse heart cine-MRI using compressed sensing reconstruction. NMR Biomed 2013; 26:451-457. [PMID: 23109290 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2012] [Revised: 09/16/2012] [Accepted: 09/17/2012] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We introduce a new protocol to obtain very high-frame-rate cinematographic (Cine) MRI movies of the beating mouse heart within a reasonable measurement time. The method is based on a self-gated accelerated fast low-angle shot (FLASH) acquisition and compressed sensing reconstruction. Key to our approach is that we exploit the stochastic nature of the retrospective triggering acquisition scheme to produce an undersampled and random k-t space filling that allows for compressed sensing reconstruction and acceleration. As a standard, a self-gated FLASH sequence with a total acquisition time of 10 min was used to produce single-slice Cine movies of seven mouse hearts with 90 frames per cardiac cycle. Two times (2×) and three times (3×) k-t space undersampled Cine movies were produced from 2.5- and 1.5-min data acquisitions, respectively. The accelerated 90-frame Cine movies of mouse hearts were successfully reconstructed with a compressed sensing algorithm. The movies had high image quality and the undersampling artifacts were effectively removed. Left ventricular functional parameters, i.e. end-systolic and end-diastolic lumen surface areas and early-to-late filling rate ratio as a parameter to evaluate diastolic function, derived from the standard and accelerated Cine movies, were nearly identical.
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- Abdallah G Motaal
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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Schmitz JPJ, Groenendaal W, Wessels B, Wiseman RW, Hilbers PAJ, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ, Jeneson JAL, van Riel NAW. Combined in vivo and in silico investigations of activation of glycolysis in contracting skeletal muscle. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2012; 304:C180-93. [PMID: 23114964 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00101.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The hypothesis was tested that the variation of in vivo glycolytic flux with contraction frequency in skeletal muscle can be qualitatively and quantitatively explained by calcium-calmodulin activation of phosphofructokinase (PFK-1). Ischemic rat tibialis anterior muscle was electrically stimulated at frequencies between 0 and 80 Hz to covary the ATP turnover rate and calcium concentration in the tissue. Estimates of in vivo glycolytic rates and cellular free energetic states were derived from dynamic changes in intramuscular pH and phosphocreatine content, respectively, determined by phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((31)P-MRS). Computational modeling was applied to relate these empirical observations to understanding of the biochemistry of muscle glycolysis. Hereto, the kinetic model of PFK activity in a previously reported mathematical model of the glycolytic pathway (Vinnakota KC, Rusk J, Palmer L, Shankland E, Kushmerick MJ. J Physiol 588: 1961-1983, 2010) was adapted to contain a calcium-calmodulin binding sensitivity. The two main results were introduction of regulation of PFK-1 activity by binding of a calcium-calmodulin complex in combination with activation by increased concentrations of AMP and ADP was essential to qualitatively and quantitatively explain the experimental observations. Secondly, the model predicted that shutdown of glycolytic ATP production flux in muscle postexercise may lag behind deactivation of PFK-1 (timescales: 5-10 s vs. 100-200 ms, respectively) as a result of accumulation of glycolytic intermediates downstream of PFK during contractions.
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- J P J Schmitz
- Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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van Tienen FHJ, Praet SFE, de Feyter HM, van den Broek NM, Lindsey PJ, Schoonderwoerd KGC, de Coo IFM, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ, Smeets HJM, van Loon LJC. Physical activity is the key determinant of skeletal muscle mitochondrial function in type 2 diabetes. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2012; 97:3261-9. [PMID: 22802091 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2011-3454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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CONTEXT Conflicting data exist on mitochondrial function and physical activity in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) development. OBJECTIVE The aim was to assess mitochondrial function at different stages during T2DM development in combination with physical exercise in longstanding T2DM patients. DESIGN AND METHODS We performed cross-sectional analysis of skeletal muscle from 12 prediabetic 11 longstanding T2DM male subjects and 12 male controls matched by age and body mass index. INTERVENTION One-year intrasubject controlled supervised exercise training intervention was done in longstanding T2DM patients. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS Extensive ex vivo analyses of mitochondrial quality, quantity, and function were collected and combined with global gene expression analysis and in vivo ATP production capacity after 1 yr of training. RESULTS Mitochondrial density, complex I activity, and the expression of Krebs cycle and oxidative phosphorylation system-related genes were lower in longstanding T2DM subjects but not in prediabetic subjects compared with controls. This indicated a reduced capacity to generate ATP in longstanding T2DM patients only. Gene expression analysis in prediabetic subjects suggested a switch from carbohydrate toward lipid as an energy source. One year of exercise training raised in vivo skeletal muscle ATP production capacity by 21 ± 2% with an increased trend in mitochondrial density and complex I activity. In addition, expression levels of β-oxidation, Krebs cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation system-related genes were higher after exercise training. CONCLUSIONS Mitochondrial dysfunction is apparent only in inactive longstanding T2DM patients, which suggests that mitochondrial function and insulin resistance do not depend on each other. Prolonged exercise training can, at least partly, reverse the mitochondrial impairments associated with the longstanding diabetic state.
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- F H J van Tienen
- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Coolen BF, Abdurrachim D, Motaal AG, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ, Strijkers GJ. High frame rate retrospectively triggered Cine MRI for assessment of murine diastolic function. Magn Reson Med 2012; 69:648-56. [PMID: 22517471 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2011] [Revised: 02/22/2012] [Accepted: 03/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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To assess left ventricular (LV) diastolic function in mice with Cine MRI, a high frame rate (>60 frames per cardiac cycle) is required. For conventional electrocardiography-triggered Cine MRI, the frame rate is inversely proportional to the pulse repetition time (TR). However, TR cannot be lowered at will to increase the frame rate because of gradient hardware, spatial resolution, and signal-to-noise limitations. To overcome these limitations associated with electrocardiography-triggered Cine MRI, in this paper, we introduce a retrospectively triggered Cine MRI protocol capable of producing high-resolution high frame rate Cine MRI of the mouse heart for addressing left ventricular diastolic function. Simulations were performed to investigate the influence of MRI sequence parameters and the k-space filling trajectory in relation to the desired number of frames per cardiac cycle. An optimized protocol was applied in vivo and compared with electrocardiography-triggered Cine for which a high-frame rate could only be achieved by several interleaved acquisitions. Retrospective high frame rate Cine MRI proved superior to the interleaved electrocardiography-triggered protocols. High spatial-resolution Cine movies with frames rates up to 80 frames per cardiac cycle were obtained in 25 min. Analysis of left ventricular filling rate curves allowed accurate determination of early and late filling rates and revealed subtle impairments in left ventricular diastolic function of diabetic mice in comparison with nondiabetic mice.
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- Bram F Coolen
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Prompers JJ, Bakermans AJ, Nierop BJ, Abdurrachim D, Nicolay K. In vivo
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- Jeanine J Prompers
- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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Janssens S, Jonkers RAM, Riel NAW, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ. In vivo
magnetic resonance spectroscopy of lipid handling in steatotic rat liver. FASEB J 2012. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.242.7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Sharon Janssens
- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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Prompers JJ, Jonkers RAM, Loon LJC, Nicolay K. In vivo
postprandial lipid partitioning in liver and muscle of diabetic rats is disturbed. FASEB J 2012. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.1014.10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Jeanine J Prompers
- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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- Department of Human Movement SciencesMaastricht University Medical Centre+MaastrichtNetherlands
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- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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Prompers JJ, Wessels B, Ciapaite J, Nicolay K. Metformin severely impairs
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muscle oxidative capacity in a rat model of type 2 diabetes. FASEB J 2012. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.887.14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Jeanine J Prompers
- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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- Department of PediatricsUniversity Medical Center GroningenGroningenNetherlands
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- Biomedical EngineeringEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhovenNetherlands
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Schmitz JPJ, Jeneson JAL, van Oorschot JWM, Prompers JJ, Nicolay K, Hilbers PAJ, van Riel NAW. Prediction of muscle energy states at low metabolic rates requires feedback control of mitochondrial respiratory chain activity by inorganic phosphate. PLoS One 2012; 7:e34118. [PMID: 22470528 PMCID: PMC3314597 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2011] [Accepted: 02/22/2012] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The regulation of the 100-fold dynamic range of mitochondrial ATP synthesis flux in skeletal muscle was investigated. Hypotheses of key control mechanisms were included in a biophysical model of oxidative phosphorylation and tested against metabolite dynamics recorded by (31)P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((31)P MRS). Simulations of the initial model featuring only ADP and Pi feedback control of flux failed in reproducing the experimentally sampled relation between myoplasmic free energy of ATP hydrolysis (ΔG(p) = ΔG(p)(o')+RT ln ([ADP][Pi]/[ATP]) and the rate of mitochondrial ATP synthesis at low fluxes (<0.2 mM/s). Model analyses including Monte Carlo simulation approaches and metabolic control analysis (MCA) showed that this problem could not be amended by model re-parameterization, but instead required reformulation of ADP and Pi feedback control or introduction of additional control mechanisms (feed forward activation), specifically at respiratory Complex III. Both hypotheses were implemented and tested against time course data of phosphocreatine (PCr), Pi and ATP dynamics during post-exercise recovery and validation data obtained by (31)P MRS of sedentary subjects and track athletes. The results rejected the hypothesis of regulation by feed forward activation. Instead, it was concluded that feedback control of respiratory chain complexes by inorganic phosphate is essential to explain the regulation of mitochondrial ATP synthesis flux in skeletal muscle throughout its full dynamic range.
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- Joep P J Schmitz
- BioModeling and Bioinformatics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Jonkers RAM, Geraedts TR, van Loon LJC, Nicolay K, Prompers JJ. Multitissue assessment of in vivo postprandial intracellular lipid partitioning in rats using localized 1H-[13C] magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Magn Reson Med 2011; 68:997-1006. [PMID: 22213012 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.23321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2011] [Revised: 11/17/2011] [Accepted: 11/17/2011] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Excess accumulation of lipids in nonadipose tissues such as skeletal muscle and liver has been implicated in the development of obesity-related disorders, but the cause of this ectopic lipid overload remains unknown. The aim of this study was to determine in vivo postprandial lipid partitioning in rat skeletal muscle and liver, using localized 1H-[13C] magnetic resonance spectroscopy in combination with the oral administration of 13C-labeled lipids. Six rats were measured at baseline and 5 and 24 h after administration of 400 mg [U-13C]-labeled algal lipids. Five hours after administration, fractional 13C enrichments of the lipid pools in muscle and liver were increased 3.9-fold and 4.6-fold (P<0.05), respectively, indicating that part of the ingested lipids had been taken up by muscle and liver tissue. At 24 h, fractional 13C enrichments of muscle and liver lipids were decreased 1.6-fold and 2.2-fold (P<0.05), respectively, compared with the 5 h values. This can be interpreted as a depletion of 13C-labeled lipids from the intracellular lipid pools as a consequence of lipid turnover. In conclusion, the novel application of 1H-[13C] magnetic resonance spectroscopy in combination with the oral administration of 13C-labeled lipids is applicable for the longitudinal assessment of in vivo lipid partitioning between multiple tissues.
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- Richard A M Jonkers
- Biomedical NMR, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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