Microsatellite instability: diagnosis, heterogeneity, discordance, and clinical impact in colorectal cancer

C Evrard, G Tachon, V Randrian, L Karayan-Tapon… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tumor DNA mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency testing is important to the identification of
Lynch syndrome and decision making regarding adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II …

Imaging tumor acidosis: a survey of the available techniques for mapping in vivo tumor pH

A Anemone, L Consolino, F Arena, M Capozza… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2019 - Springer
Cancer cells are characterized by a metabolic shift in cellular energy production,
orchestrated by the transcription factor HIF-1α, from mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation …

Opportunities and challenges with hyperpolarized bioresponsive probes for functional imaging using magnetic resonance

G Angelovski, BJ Tickner, G Wang - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The development of hyperpolarized bioresponsive probes for magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) applications is an emerging and rapidly growing topic in chemistry. A wide range of …

Spatiotemporal pH heterogeneity as a promoter of cancer progression and therapeutic resistance

DE Korenchan, RR Flavell - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Dysregulation of pH in solid tumors is a hallmark of cancer. In recent years, the role of
altered pH heterogeneity in space, between benign and aggressive tissues, between …

Design of nuclear magnetic resonance molecular probes for hyperpolarized bioimaging

Y Kondo, H Nonaka, Y Takakusagi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nuclear hyperpolarization has emerged as a method to dramatically enhance the sensitivity
of NMR spectroscopy. By application of this powerful tool, small molecules with stable …

Intraperitoneal Delivery of Iopamidol to Assess Extracellular pH of Orthotopic Pancreatic Tumor Model by CEST‐MRI

BV Jardim-Perassi, P Irrera, JYC Lau… - Contrast Media & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The extracellular pH (pHe) of solid tumors is often acidic, as a consequence of the Warburg
effect, and an altered metabolic state is often associated with malignancy. It has been shown …

Late-stage deuteration of 13 C-enriched substrates for T 1 prolongation in hyperpolarized 13 C MRI

C Taglang, DE Korenchan, C Von Morze… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
A robust and selective late-stage deuteration methodology was applied to 13C-enriched
amino and alpha hydroxy acids to increase spin–lattice relaxation constant T1 for …

Hyperpolarized amino acid derivatives as multivalent magnetic resonance pH sensor molecules

C Hundshammer, S Düwel, D Ruseckas, G Topping… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
pH is a tightly regulated physiological parameter that is often altered in diseased states like
cancer. The development of biosensors that can be used to non-invasively image pH with …

Acquisition strategies for spatially resolved magnetic resonance detection of hyperpolarized nuclei

GJ Topping, C Hundshammer, L Nagel… - … Resonance Materials in …, 2020 - Springer
Hyperpolarization is an emerging method in magnetic resonance imaging that allows
nuclear spin polarization of gases or liquids to be temporarily enhanced by up to five or six …

Cancer metabolism in a snapshot: MRS (I)

M Julià‐Sapé, AP Candiota, C Arús - NMR in Biomedicine, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The contribution of MRS (I) to the in vivo evaluation of cancer‐metabolism‐derived metrics,
mostly since 2016, is reviewed here. Increased carbon consumption by tumour cells, which …