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CANCER RESEARCH
卷 76, 期 22, 页码 6463-6470出版社
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-16-0825
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- TUM-IAS (Hans Fisher Senior Fellowship)
- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 GLINT project) [602306]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SFB 824]
The vast majority of cancers exhibit increased glucose uptake and glycolysis regardless of oxygen availability. This metabolic shift leads to an enhanced production of lactic acid that decreases extracellular pH (pHe), a hallmark of the tumor microenvironment. In this way, dysregulated tumor pHe and upregulated glucose metabolism are linked tightly and their relative assessment may be useful to gain understanding of the underlying biology. Here we investigated noninvasively the in vivo correlation between tumor F-18-FDG uptake and extracellular pH values in a murine model of HER2(+) breast cancer. Tumor extracellular pH and perfusion were assessed by acquiring MRI-CEST (chemical exchange saturation transfer) images on a 3T scanner after intravenous administration of a pH-responsive contrast agent (iopamidol). Static PET images were recorded immediately after MRI acquisitions to quantify the extent of F-18-FDG uptake. We demonstrated the occurrence of tumor pHe changes that report on acidification of the interstitial fluid caused by an accelerated glycolysis. Combined PET and MRI-CEST images reported complementary spatial information of the altered glucose metabolism. Notably, a significant inverse correlation was found between extracellular tumor pH and F-18-FDG uptake, as a high F-18-FDG uptake corresponds to lower extracellular pH values. These results show how merging the information from F-18-FDG-uptake and extracellular pH measurements can improve characterization of the tumor microenvironment. (C) 2016 AACR.
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