In vivo cellular imaging of lymphocyte trafficking by MRI: A tumor model approach to cell-based anticancer therapy
✍ Scribed by Pierre Smirnov; Elise Lavergne; Florence Gazeau; Maïté Lewin; Alexandre Boissonnas; Bich-Thuy Doan; Brigitte Gillet; Christophe Combadière; Béhazine Combadière; Olivier Clément
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 687 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0740-3194
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The aim of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of in vivo cell tracking to monitor anticancer cell therapy by means of a high‐resolution noninvasive MRI method. Ovalbumin‐specific splenocytes (OT‐1) labeled with anionic γ‐Fe~2~O~3~ superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticles were adoptively transferred into C57BL/6 mice with growing ovalbumin‐expressing tumors. OT‐1 cells were tracked in vivo by 7 T MRI 24, 48, and 72 hr after they were injected. The results showed significant negative enhancement of the spleen at 24 hr, and of the tumor at 48 and 72 hr, after labeled cell injection. This suggests that the lymphocytes initially homed toward the spleen and were then recruited by the tumor. The presence of labeled cells was confirmed in ex vivo by 9.4 T microimaging of tumors and magnetic sorting of spleen cells. These results confirm that MR tracking of lymphocytes is feasible in vivo. This high‐resolution imaging method could be used to improve the monitoring of immune cell therapy. Magn Reson Med, 2006. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.