01.10.2010 | Original Article
PET imaging of inflammation and adenocarcinoma xenografts using vascular adhesion protein 1 targeting peptide 68Ga-DOTAVAP-P1: comparison with 18F-FDG
Erschienen in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Ausgabe 10/2010
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Purpose
The aim of this study was to evaluate inflammation and tumour imaging with a vascular adhesion protein 1 (VAP-1) targeting peptide 68Ga-DOTAVAP-P1 in comparison with 18F-FDG.
Methods
Rats with both subcutaneous human pancreatic adenocarcinoma xenografts and turpentine oil-induced acute sterile inflammation were evaluated by dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) and by digital autoradiography of tissue cryosections. Subsequently, the autoradiographs were combined with histological and immunohistological analysis of the sections.
Results
68Ga-DOTAVAP-P1 delineated acute, sterile inflammation comparable with 18F-FDG. However, the tumour uptake of 68Ga-DOTAVAP-P1 was low in contrast to prominent 18F-FDG uptake. The standardised uptake values of inflammation and tumours by PET were 1.1 ± 0.4 (mean ± SEM) and 0.4 ± 0.1 for 68Ga-DOTAVAP-P1 and 2.0 ± 0.5 and 1.6 ± 0.8 for 18F-FDG, respectively. In addition, PET studies showed inflammation to muscle and tumour to muscle ratios of 5.1 ± 3.1 and 1.7 ± 0.3 for 68Ga-DOTAVAP-P1 and 6.2 ± 0.7 and 4.6 ± 2.2 for 18F-FDG, respectively. Immunohistochemistry revealed increased expression of luminal VAP-1 on the endothelium at the site of inflammation and low expression in the tumour
Conclusion
The 68Ga-DOTAVAP-P1 PET was able to visualise inflammation better than tumour, which was in accordance with the luminal expression of VAP-1 on vasculature in these experimental models.
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