LIU Xi,ZHOU Nai-kang,ZHANG Jin-ming,LIANG Chao-yang,ZHANG Jing,ZHENG Xin.Experimental study on biodistribution and PET imaging of 3’-deoxy-3’-18F-fluorothymidine in murine models of lung carcinoma and inflammation[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2007,29(09):798-800.
LIU Xi,ZHOU Nai-kang,ZHANG Jin-ming,LIANG Chao-yang,ZHANG Jing,ZHENG Xin.Experimental study on biodistribution and PET imaging of 3’-deoxy-3’-18F-fluorothymidine in murine models of lung carcinoma and inflammation[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2007,29(09):798-800.DOI:
Objective To investigate the biodistribution and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of 3′-deoxy-3′-
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F-fluorothymidine (
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F-FLT) in murine models of lung carcinoma and inflammation
so as to evaluate the use of
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F-FLT as a new PET tracer for diagnosis of
malignant tumor. Methods Sixteen T739 mice bearing the lung adenocarcinoma were randomly divided into two groups according to the different tracers. The biodistribution of mice for
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F-FLT and
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F-fluorodeoxyglucose (
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F-FDG) was measured with well-gamma detector at 60 min after injection from tail veins. PET imaging was performed using two tracers. The whole process mentioned above was repeated in twelve T739 mice with inflammation. Results In the biodistribution study of
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F-FLT with lung carcinoma models
considerable radioactive uptake by tumor was observed. The ratios of tumor/blood
tumor/muscle and tumor/lung were all above 2.0. The tumor PET images with
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F-FLT and
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F-FDG were clear. In the study with inflammation models
inflammation-to-muscle radioactivity ratio of
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F-FDG (2.25±0.39) were higher than that of
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F-FLT (1.26±0.19) (P0.01).
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F-FDG accumulated in inflammatory tissues
whereas
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F-FLT was not taken up by these tissues. Conclusion The uptake of
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F-FLT in pulmonary malignant tissues is higher than that in normal tissues. Inflammatory tissues are invisible in
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F-FLT PET images.
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F-FLT is of good specificity to differentiate the two models.