Rapid and Selective Targeting of Heterogeneous Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

Summary: Design of tissue-specific contrast agents to delineate tumors from background tissues is a major unmet clinical need for ultimate surgical interventions. Bioconjugation of fluorophore(s) to a ligand has been mainly used to target overexpressed receptors on tumors. However, the size of the f...

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Main Authors: G. Kate Park, Jeong Heon Lee, Eduardo Soriano, Myunghwan Choi, Kai Bao, Wataru Katagiri, Do-Yeon Kim, Ji-Hye Paik, Seok-Hyun Yun, John V. Frangioni, Thomas E. Clancy, Satoshi Kashiwagi, Maged Henary, Hak Soo Choi
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Published: Elsevier 2020-04-01
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220301905
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author G. Kate Park
Jeong Heon Lee
Eduardo Soriano
Myunghwan Choi
Kai Bao
Wataru Katagiri
Do-Yeon Kim
Ji-Hye Paik
Seok-Hyun Yun
John V. Frangioni
Thomas E. Clancy
Satoshi Kashiwagi
Maged Henary
Hak Soo Choi
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Jeong Heon Lee
Eduardo Soriano
Myunghwan Choi
Kai Bao
Wataru Katagiri
Do-Yeon Kim
Ji-Hye Paik
Seok-Hyun Yun
John V. Frangioni
Thomas E. Clancy
Satoshi Kashiwagi
Maged Henary
Hak Soo Choi
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description Summary: Design of tissue-specific contrast agents to delineate tumors from background tissues is a major unmet clinical need for ultimate surgical interventions. Bioconjugation of fluorophore(s) to a ligand has been mainly used to target overexpressed receptors on tumors. However, the size of the final targeted ligand can be large, >20 kDa, and cannot readily cross the microvasculature to meet the specific tissue, resulting in low targetability with a high background. Here, we report a small and hydrophilic phenoxazine with high targetability and retention to pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. This bioengineered fluorophore permits sensitive detection of ultrasmall (<0.5 mm) ectopic tumors within a few seconds after a single bolus injection, highlighting every tumor in the pancreas from the surrounding healthy tissues with reasonable half-life. The knowledge-based approach and validation used to develop structure-inherent tumor-targeted fluorophores have a tremendous potential to improve treatment outcome by providing definite tumor margins for image-guided surgery. : Histology; Chemistry; Cancer Subject Areas: Histology, Chemistry, Cancer
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spelling doaj.art-92a3fc2c2d484fb8be56db98517e71632022-12-21T18:30:18ZengElsevieriScience2589-00422020-04-01234Rapid and Selective Targeting of Heterogeneous Pancreatic Neuroendocrine TumorsG. Kate Park0Jeong Heon Lee1Eduardo Soriano2Myunghwan Choi3Kai Bao4Wataru Katagiri5Do-Yeon Kim6Ji-Hye Paik7Seok-Hyun Yun8John V. Frangioni9Thomas E. Clancy10Satoshi Kashiwagi11Maged Henary12Hak Soo Choi13Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USAGordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USADepartment of Chemistry, Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, 100 Piedmont Ave SE, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USAWellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, MA 02139, USAGordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USAGordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USADepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USADepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USAWellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, MA 02139, USACuradel, LLC, Natick, MA 01760, USADivision of Surgical Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USAGordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USADepartment of Chemistry, Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, 100 Piedmont Ave SE, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA; Corresponding authorGordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Corresponding authorSummary: Design of tissue-specific contrast agents to delineate tumors from background tissues is a major unmet clinical need for ultimate surgical interventions. Bioconjugation of fluorophore(s) to a ligand has been mainly used to target overexpressed receptors on tumors. However, the size of the final targeted ligand can be large, >20 kDa, and cannot readily cross the microvasculature to meet the specific tissue, resulting in low targetability with a high background. Here, we report a small and hydrophilic phenoxazine with high targetability and retention to pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. This bioengineered fluorophore permits sensitive detection of ultrasmall (<0.5 mm) ectopic tumors within a few seconds after a single bolus injection, highlighting every tumor in the pancreas from the surrounding healthy tissues with reasonable half-life. The knowledge-based approach and validation used to develop structure-inherent tumor-targeted fluorophores have a tremendous potential to improve treatment outcome by providing definite tumor margins for image-guided surgery. : Histology; Chemistry; Cancer Subject Areas: Histology, Chemistry, Cancerhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220301905
spellingShingle G. Kate Park
Jeong Heon Lee
Eduardo Soriano
Myunghwan Choi
Kai Bao
Wataru Katagiri
Do-Yeon Kim
Ji-Hye Paik
Seok-Hyun Yun
John V. Frangioni
Thomas E. Clancy
Satoshi Kashiwagi
Maged Henary
Hak Soo Choi
Rapid and Selective Targeting of Heterogeneous Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
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title Rapid and Selective Targeting of Heterogeneous Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
title_full Rapid and Selective Targeting of Heterogeneous Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
title_fullStr Rapid and Selective Targeting of Heterogeneous Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
title_full_unstemmed Rapid and Selective Targeting of Heterogeneous Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
title_short Rapid and Selective Targeting of Heterogeneous Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
title_sort rapid and selective targeting of heterogeneous pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220301905
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