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FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.988667
Keywords
tolerogenic dendritic cells; F-19; cell tracking; (111)Indium; MRI; rheumatoid arthritis
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Funding
- Versus Arthritis grant [21811]
- Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking [777357]
- European Union [860003]
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
- NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [860003] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Tolerogenic dendritic cell (tolDC) therapies aim to restore self-tolerance in patients with autoimmune diseases. This study tested the suitability of using nanoparticles containing F-19 for labeling therapeutic human tolDC for detection through F-19-MRI. The results showed that F-19-NP is a suitable imaging agent for tolDC and does not affect their function.
Tolerogenic dendritic cell (tolDC) therapies aim to restore self-tolerance in patients suffering from autoimmune diseases. Phase 1 clinical trials with tolDC have shown the feasibility and safety of this approach, but have also highlighted a lack of understanding of their distribution in vivo. Fluorine-19 magnetic resonance imaging (F-19-MRI) promises an attractive cell tracking method because it allows for detection of F-19-labelled cells in a non-invasive and longitudinal manner. Here, we tested the suitability of nanoparticles containing F-19 (F-19-NP) for labelling of therapeutic human tolDC for detection by F-19-MRI. We found that tolDC readily endocytosed F-19-NP with acceptable effects on cell viability and yield. The MRI signal-to-noise ratios obtained are more than sufficient for detection of the administered tolDC dose (10 million cells) at the injection site in vivo, depending on the tissue depth and the rate of cell dispersal. Importantly, F-19-NP labelling did not revert tolDC into immunogenic DC, as confirmed by their low expression of typical mature DC surface markers (CD83, CD86), low secretion of pro-inflammatory IL-12p70, and low capacity to induce IFN-gamma in allogeneic CD4(+) T cells. In addition, the capacity of tolDC to secrete anti-inflammatory IL-10 was not diminished by F-19-NP labelling. We conclude that F-19-NP is a suitable imaging agent for tolDC. With currently available technologies, this imaging approach does not yet approach the sensitivity required to detect small numbers of migrating cells, but could have important utility for determining the accuracy of injecting tolDC into the desired target tissue and their efflux rate.
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