期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS
卷 48, 期 2, 页码 571-582出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00686-6
关键词
tumor; perfusion; vasculature; hypoxia; image analysis
资金
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA050995] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NCI NIH HHS [CA50995] Funding Source: Medline
Purpose: To quantitatively study the spatial distribution of tumor hypoxia in relation to the perfused vasculature. Methods and Materials: Using a human glioma xenograft model, nude mice were administered two different hypoxia markers (NITP or pimonidazole) and the perfusion marker Hoechst 33342, Frozen tumor sections were sequentially scanned for perfusion, hypoxia, and vasculature, respectively, to quantitate perfusion, vasculature, and hypoxia parameters in the same section. Results: All tumors showed incomplete perfusion. Both NITP and pimonidazole stained the same hypoxic tumor areas. No statistically significant differences between the two markers were observed. The density of the perfused vessels was inversely related to the hypoxic fraction, At critical distances from perfused vessels, hypoxia occurred. These data suggest that predominantly diffusion-limited hypoxia was detected, based on the spatial distribution of nearby vessels. Also, the proportion of hypoxia distributed over arbitrary zones of 50 mu m around perfused vessels was calculated. The largest proportion of hypoxia was found at distances beyond 100 mu m from perfused vessels. Conclusion: With the multiple staining and functional microscopic imaging technique described here, the spatial relationship between perfused vessels and hypoxia was quantified in whole tumor cross-sections. The usefulness of this histologically-based method to quantitate morphological and physiological aspects of the tumor microenvironment was evaluated. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc.
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