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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-10-14
pubmed:abstractText
A new non-invasive method for monitoring apoptosis has been developed using high frequency (40 MHz) ultrasound imaging. Conventional ultrasound backscatter imaging techniques were used to observe apoptosis occurring in response to anticancer agents in cells in vitro, in tissues ex vivo and in live animals. The mechanism behind this ultrasonic detection was identified experimentally to be the subcellular nuclear changes, condensation followed by fragmentation, that cells undergo during apoptosis. These changes dramatically increase the high frequency ultrasound scattering efficiency of apoptotic cells over normal cells (25- to 50-fold change in intensity). The result is that areas of tissue undergoing apoptosis become much brighter in comparison to surrounding viable tissues. The results provide a framework for the possibility of using high frequency ultrasound imaging in the future to non-invasively monitor the effects of chemotherapeutic agents and other anticancer treatments in experimental animal systems and in patients.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0007-0920
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
81
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
520-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Antineoplastic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Cell Cycle, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Cisplatin, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-DNA, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Dihematoporphyrin Ether, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Hematoporphyrin Photoradiation, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Leukemic Infiltration, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Neoplasm Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Radiation-Sensitizing Agents, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Rats, Inbred F344, pubmed-meshheading:10507779-Tumor Cells, Cultured
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Ultrasound imaging of apoptosis: high-resolution non-invasive monitoring of programmed cell death in vitro, in situ and in vivo.
pubmed:affiliation
Ontario Cancer Institute and Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't