技術(shù)文章
Nanobrook Omni測(cè)量應(yīng)用案例-85
閱讀:485 發(fā)布時(shí)間:2019-3-6
作者:Dongban Duan† , Hui Liu†, Yang Xu†, Yuxiang Han†, Mengxin Xu†, Zhengchu Zhang†, and Zhibo Liu*†‡
†Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Radiochemistry and Radiation Chemistry Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
‡Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
摘要:The classical photodynamic therapy (PDT) requires external light to activate photosensitizers for cancer treatment. However, limited tissue penetration of light has been a long-standing challenge for PDT to cure malignant tumors in deep tissues. Recently, Cerenkov radiation (CR) emitted by radiotracers such as 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) has become an alternative and promising internal light source. Nevertheless, fluorine-18 (F-18) only releases 1.3 photons per decay in average; consequently, injection dose of F-18 goes beyond 10–30 times more than usual to acquire therapeutic efficacy because of its low Cerenkov productivity. Gallium-68 (Ga-68) is a favorable CR source owing to its ready availability from generator and 30-time higher Cerenkov productivity. Herein, we report, for the first time, the use of Ga-68 as a CR source to activate dextran-modified TiO2 nanoparticles (D-TiO2 NPs) for CR-induced PDT. Compared with 18F-FDG, 68Ga-labeled bovine serum albumin (68Ga-BSA) inhibited the growth of 4T1 cells and exhibited significantly stronger DNA damage to tumor cells. In vivo studies showed that the tumor growth was almost completely inhibited when tumor-bearing mice were treated with a combination of D-TiO2 NPs and 68Ga-BSA. This study proved that Ga-68 is a more potent radionuclide for PDT than F-18 both in vitro and in vivo offered a promising strategy of using a diagnostic dose of radioactivity to achieve depth-independent cancer therapy without using any external light source.