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Water exchange-minimizing DCE-MRI protocol to detect changes in tumor vascular parameters: effect of bevacizumab/paclitaxel combination therapy

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Abstract

Objective

The purpose of this study was to assess changes in the tumor microvasculature induced by combination antiangiogenic therapy in MCF-7 breast tumor mouse models, using a noninvasive DCE-MRI method that minimizes the effect of water exchange.

Materials and methods

3D quantitative DCE-MRI images were acquired with a heavily T 1-weighted saturation recovery gradient echo sequence with a recovery delay of 20 ms. Tumor vascular volume (VV) and vascular permeability-surface area product (PS) were obtained through a linear regression of the albumin-Gd-DTPA-enhanced dynamic image intensity on MCF-7 breast tumor mouse models treated with combination bevacizumab/paclitaxel therapy.

Results

Measured tumor VV values were significantly higher than the values that have been reported previously using quantitative T 1 mapping, and are in good agreement with micro-CT (computed tomography) results reported earlier from other tumor models. A trend of decreasing tumor PS was detected in the group of MCF-7 tumor bearing mice treated with the bevacizumab/paclitaxel combination regimen.

Conclusion

VV and PS maps obtained by a heavily T 1-weighted acquisition protocol revealed the large peripheral blood vessels as well as the permeable areas within the tumor. A 12-day/three-dose combination treatment of bevacizumab and paclitaxel resulted in delayed tumor growth and a trend of decreasing tumor vascular permeability surface area product.

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by NIH/NCI P50CA103175, R01CA154738, and a GlaxoSmithKline research award. We would like to thank Dr. Arvind P. Pathak, Dr. Susanta K. Sarkar, and Dr. Zaver M. Bhujwalla for helpful discussions. We are also grateful to Mr. Gary Cromwell for mouse tumor inoculation, Dr. Noriko Mori for the preparation of the albumin-Gd-DTPA used in this study, and Ms. Mary McAllister for proofreading the manuscript.

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Zhu, W., Kato, Y. & Artemov, D. Water exchange-minimizing DCE-MRI protocol to detect changes in tumor vascular parameters: effect of bevacizumab/paclitaxel combination therapy. Magn Reson Mater Phy 27, 161–170 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-013-0389-0

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