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2-Deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro-d-glucose Accumulation in Ovarian Carcinoma Cell Lines

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Abstract

Purpose

To evaluate 2-deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro-d-glucose (FDG) accumulation in human ovarian carcinoma cell lines compared with control tumor cell lines known to accumulate FDG.

Procedures

FDG accumulation assays were performed in 15 different ovarian carcinoma cell lines at 1, 2, and 3 hours after incubation with 1 μCi of FDG. Results were compared with FDG accumulation in six different control tumor cell lines. 2-Deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro-d-glucose accumulation was expressed as counts per minute (cpm) in cells and normalized to initial cpm in medium and total protein content of cell lysates.

Results

FDG accumulation in all 15 ovarian carcinoma cell lines was equal to or higher than 0.0005 ± 8.6 10−5 cpm in cells/cpm in medium/μg protein at all three different time points. In two ovarian carcinoma cell lines (ES-2, poorly differentiated clear cell carcinoma, and OVCAR-3, poorly differentiated papillary adenocarcinoma), FDG accumulation was not statistically, significantly different compared to the control cell line with the highest FDG accumulation (LS 174T human colorectal adenocarcinoma) at two or more time points (P ≥ 0.07). In 2 of 15 (13%) ovarian carcinoma cell lines (OVCAR5 epithelial carcinoma and SKOV3 clear cell carcinoma), FDG accumulation was lower than that in the control cell line with the lowest FDG accumulation (HT-29 human colorectal adenocarcinoma) at one or more time points (P < 0.05).

Conclusions

Most human ovarian carcinoma cell lines showed comparable FDG accumulations with control cell lines known to accumulate FDG. This study lays the foundations for further comparisons with other ovarian cancer cell lines and for other positron emission tomography tracers.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank for the generous support the Canary Foundation and Mr. Don Listwin for funding most of this work. Amelie Lutz was supported in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Juergen Willmann was supported in part by the Swiss Foundation of Medical-Biological Grants and Novartis Research Foundation. We would also like to thank support from NIH ICMIC P50 CA114747 (SSG). Furthermore, we would like to thank Dr. David Dick and Dr. Fred Chin in our cyclotron facility for the production of FDG. We would also like to thank Aviva Ventura from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for her help with the ovarian cancer cell lines.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    A. M. Lutz, P. Ray, J. K. Willmann & S. S. Gambhir

  2. Molecular Diagnostic Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

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  3. Department of Bioengineering, the Bio-X Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    S. S. Gambhir

  4. The James H Clark Center, 318 Campus Drive, East Wing, 1st Floor, Stanford, CA, 94305-5427, USA

    S. S. Gambhir

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Lutz, A.M., Ray, P., Willmann, J.K. et al. 2-Deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro-d-glucose Accumulation in Ovarian Carcinoma Cell Lines. Mol Imaging Biol 9, 260–266 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11307-007-0105-4

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