Molecular Targeted Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging of Flk1 Reveals Diagnosis and Prognosis Potential in a Genetically Engineered Mouse Prostate Cancer Model
Molecular imaging techniques used to detect the initiation of disease have the potential to provide the best opportunity for early treatment and cure. This report aimed at testing the possibility that Flk1 + (vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2), a crucial angiogenesis factor of most tumor...
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| author | Jim W. Xuan Michael Bygrave Fatma Valiyeva Madeleine Moussa Jonathan I. Izawa Glenn S. Bauman Alexander Klibanov Fen Wang Norman M. Greenberg Aaron Fenster |
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| description | Molecular imaging techniques used to detect the initiation of disease have the potential to provide the best opportunity for early treatment and cure. This report aimed at testing the possibility that Flk1 + (vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2), a crucial angiogenesis factor of most tumor cells, could be a molecular targeted imaging marker for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. We performed Flk1-targeted microbubble-enhanced ultrasound (US) imaging of prostate cancer in a genetically engineered mouse model with normal-appearing intact US (negative) prostates and with three different tumor sizes (small, medium, and large). Higher levels of Flk1 + molecular signals were identified in the intact US (negative) prostate group by US-targeted imaging and immunohistochemical analysis. The increase in Flk1 + expression occurred prior to the angiogenesis switch-on phase and vascularity peak. After this peak accumulation stage of Flk1 + molecules, lower and stabilized levels of Flk1 + signals were maintained together with tumor growth from small, to medium, to large size. In a longitudinal observation in a subset ( n = 5) of mice with established tumors, elevated Flk1 + signals were observed in tissues surrounding the prostate cancer, for example, the ipsilateral boundary zones between two developing tumor lobes, new tumor blood vessel recruits, the urethra border, and the pelvic node basin. The potential of Flk1-targeted US imaging as a predictive imaging tool was confirmed by correlation studies of three-dimensional US B-mode imaging, gross pathology, and histology analyses. The results of the application in a genetically engineered mouse model with prostate cancer of molecular Flk1-targeted US imaging support the contention that Flk1 can be used as a molecular imaging marker for small tumors undetectable by microimaging and as a molecular diagnostic and prognosis marker for tumor metastasis and progression. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-30620beded164a3e8db347da2c6bb7ef2025-08-20T02:43:25ZengSAGE PublishingMolecular Imaging1536-01212009-07-01810.2310/7290.2009.0002010.2310_7290.2009.00020Molecular Targeted Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging of Flk1 Reveals Diagnosis and Prognosis Potential in a Genetically Engineered Mouse Prostate Cancer ModelJim W. XuanMichael BygraveFatma ValiyevaMadeleine MoussaJonathan I. IzawaGlenn S. BaumanAlexander KlibanovFen WangNorman M. GreenbergAaron FensterMolecular imaging techniques used to detect the initiation of disease have the potential to provide the best opportunity for early treatment and cure. This report aimed at testing the possibility that Flk1 + (vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2), a crucial angiogenesis factor of most tumor cells, could be a molecular targeted imaging marker for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. We performed Flk1-targeted microbubble-enhanced ultrasound (US) imaging of prostate cancer in a genetically engineered mouse model with normal-appearing intact US (negative) prostates and with three different tumor sizes (small, medium, and large). Higher levels of Flk1 + molecular signals were identified in the intact US (negative) prostate group by US-targeted imaging and immunohistochemical analysis. The increase in Flk1 + expression occurred prior to the angiogenesis switch-on phase and vascularity peak. After this peak accumulation stage of Flk1 + molecules, lower and stabilized levels of Flk1 + signals were maintained together with tumor growth from small, to medium, to large size. In a longitudinal observation in a subset ( n = 5) of mice with established tumors, elevated Flk1 + signals were observed in tissues surrounding the prostate cancer, for example, the ipsilateral boundary zones between two developing tumor lobes, new tumor blood vessel recruits, the urethra border, and the pelvic node basin. The potential of Flk1-targeted US imaging as a predictive imaging tool was confirmed by correlation studies of three-dimensional US B-mode imaging, gross pathology, and histology analyses. The results of the application in a genetically engineered mouse model with prostate cancer of molecular Flk1-targeted US imaging support the contention that Flk1 can be used as a molecular imaging marker for small tumors undetectable by microimaging and as a molecular diagnostic and prognosis marker for tumor metastasis and progression.https://doi.org/10.2310/7290.2009.00020 |
| spellingShingle | Jim W. Xuan Michael Bygrave Fatma Valiyeva Madeleine Moussa Jonathan I. Izawa Glenn S. Bauman Alexander Klibanov Fen Wang Norman M. Greenberg Aaron Fenster Molecular Targeted Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging of Flk1 Reveals Diagnosis and Prognosis Potential in a Genetically Engineered Mouse Prostate Cancer Model Molecular Imaging |
| title | Molecular Targeted Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging of Flk1 Reveals Diagnosis and Prognosis Potential in a Genetically Engineered Mouse Prostate Cancer Model |
| title_full | Molecular Targeted Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging of Flk1 Reveals Diagnosis and Prognosis Potential in a Genetically Engineered Mouse Prostate Cancer Model |
| title_fullStr | Molecular Targeted Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging of Flk1 Reveals Diagnosis and Prognosis Potential in a Genetically Engineered Mouse Prostate Cancer Model |
| title_full_unstemmed | Molecular Targeted Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging of Flk1 Reveals Diagnosis and Prognosis Potential in a Genetically Engineered Mouse Prostate Cancer Model |
| title_short | Molecular Targeted Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging of Flk1 Reveals Diagnosis and Prognosis Potential in a Genetically Engineered Mouse Prostate Cancer Model |
| title_sort | molecular targeted enhanced ultrasound imaging of flk1 reveals diagnosis and prognosis potential in a genetically engineered mouse prostate cancer model |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2310/7290.2009.00020 |
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