A Comparative Uptake Study of Multiplexed PET Tracers in Mice with Turpentine-Induced Inflammation
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
2.1. PET Tracers
2.2. Biodistribution of Multiple Tracers
2.3. Inflammation PET Imaging with Multiple Tracers
2.4. Tracer Uptake Ratio-Time Curves
2.5. Histopathologic Findings of Inflammation
3. Experimental
3.1. Generals
3.2. Radiosynthesis of PET Tracers
3.3. Inflammatory Mice Models
3.4. PET/CT Imaging
3.5. Time-Course of Tracer Uptake Ratios
3.6. Histopathological Analysis
3.7. Statistical Analysis
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Acknowledgments
Conflict of Interest
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Sample Availability: Samples of the compounds are available from the authors. |
Tissue | [18F]FDG | 18F− | [18F]FCH | [11C]PIB | [11C]DPA-Zn2+ | [11C]DMCYS |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blood | 1.36 ± 0.14 | 0.54 ± 0.12 | 1.17 ± 0.08 | 0.47 ± 0.08 | 1.36 ± 0.12 | 1.58 ± 0.52 |
Brain | 4.99 ± 0.39 | 0.17 ± 0.02 | 0.30 ± 0.01 | 0.23 ± 0.02 | 1.27 ± 0.35 | 1.45 ± 0.48 |
Heart | 12.5 ± 2.23 | 0.52 ± 0.03 | 2.50 ± 0.35 | 0.40 ± 0.11 | 0.61 ± 0.07 | 1.16 ± 0.68 |
Lung | 2.2 ± 0.68 | 0.41 ± 0.05 | 3.11 ± 0.47 | 0.31 ± 0.05 | 0.66 ± 0.18 | 1.35 ± 0.73 |
Liver | 1.88 ± 0.27 | 0.35 ± 0.02 | 20.51 ± 12.24 | 0.33 ± 0.04 | 3.31 ± 1.09 | 1.10 ± 0.28 |
Stomach | 1.51 ± 0.31 | 0.28 ± 0.02 | 2.30 ± 0.31 | 0.30 ± 0.06 | 0.60 ± 0.14 | 0.91 ± 0.42 |
Pancreas | 3.11 ± 0.38 | 0.41 ± 0.01 | 4.26 ± 0.67 | 0.39 ± 0.11 | 0.41 ± 0.06 | 4.17 ± 1.54 |
Kidney | 3.89 ± 0.16 | 0.61 ± 0.05 | 8.00 ± 1.69 | 0.29 ± 0.05 | 1.29 ± 0.39 | 0.79 ± 0.35 |
Intestine | 2.22 ± 0.34 | 0.39 ± 0.08 | 5.09 ± 0.72 | 0.33 ± 0.07 | 2.73 ± 0.85 | 1.08 ± 0.29 |
Femur | 3.78 ± 2.53 | 21.97 ± 8.02 | 2.19 ± 0.25 | 0.06 ± 0.02 | 0.19 ± 0.03 | 0.12 ± 0.03 |
Muscle | 1.48 ± 1.22 | 0.42 ± 0.04 | 0.97 ± 0.01 | 0.31 ± 0.04 | 0.83 ± 0.13 | 1.24 ± 0.46 |
Inflammation | 4.33 ± 1.44 | 4.72 ± 0.70 | 1.78 ± 0.02 | 0.31 ± 0.03 | 1.69 ± 0.15 | 1.64 ± 0.11 |
IM/BL a | 3.18 ± 0.28 | 8.74 ± 1.58 | 1.52 ± 0.26 | 0.64 ± 0.13 | 1.24 ± 0.27 | 0.99 ± 0.18 |
IM/NM b | 2.93 ± 0.31 | 11.23 ± 2.32 | 1.83 ± 0.51 | 1.01 ± 0.09 | 1.73 ± 0.32 | 1.32 ± 0.25 |
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Huang, T.; Wang, H.; Tang, G.; Liang, X.; Nie, D.; Yi, C.; Wu, K. A Comparative Uptake Study of Multiplexed PET Tracers in Mice with Turpentine-Induced Inflammation. Molecules 2012, 17, 13948-13959. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules171213948
Huang T, Wang H, Tang G, Liang X, Nie D, Yi C, Wu K. A Comparative Uptake Study of Multiplexed PET Tracers in Mice with Turpentine-Induced Inflammation. Molecules. 2012; 17(12):13948-13959. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules171213948
Chicago/Turabian StyleHuang, Tingting, Hongliang Wang, Ganghua Tang, Xiang Liang, Dahong Nie, Chang Yi, and Kening Wu. 2012. "A Comparative Uptake Study of Multiplexed PET Tracers in Mice with Turpentine-Induced Inflammation" Molecules 17, no. 12: 13948-13959. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules171213948