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Abstract #0552

A Newly Designed Hyperpolarized Aminopeptidase N Probe Sensitively Detects Early Therapeutic Responses Heterogeneously on Pancreatic Tumors

Norikazu Koyasu1, Hiroyuki Yatabe2, Yoichi Takakusagi3, Yutaro Saito2, Shinske Sando2, Murali C. Krishna1, and Kazutoshi Yamamoto1
1National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States, 2The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 3National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan

Synopsis

Keywords: Probes & Targets, Hyperpolarized MR (Non-Gas)

Motivation: Molecular imaging is a promising methodology for diagnosing cancer and monitoring treatments by noninvasively visualizing the alternations of cancer metabolisms.

Goal(s): A framework for developing novel dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization(dDNP) probes is needed to overcome their limited availabilities for in vivo and clinical applications.

Approach: dDNP-metabolic MRI successfully monitors therapeutic responses in spatiotemporal enzymatic activities particularly at earlier stages before the volumetric changes can be observed.

Results: In this presentation, we will demonstrate a model case for a rationally designed novel dDNP probe, aminopeptidase-N(CD13), which allows us to detect heterogenetic treatment responses with an anti-angiogenic/antitumor drug, sunitinib, at the earlier stages in tumors.

Impact: This work exhibits a framework that a rationally designed hyperpolarized MR probe targeted to a highly-selective enzymatic activity, aminopeptidase-N, leads to monitor early therapeutic responses on cancer tissues in vivo and to observe tumor heterogeneity in their treatment responses non-invasively.

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