Delivery rate affects uptake of a fluorescent glucose analog in murine metastatic breast cancer

PLoS One. 2013 Oct 18;8(10):e76524. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076524. eCollection 2013.

Abstract

We demonstrate an optical strategy using intravital microscopy of dorsal skin flap window chamber models to image glucose uptake and vascular oxygenation in vivo. Glucose uptake was imaged using a fluorescent glucose analog, 2-[N-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diaxol-4-yl)amino]-2-deoxyglucose (2-NBDG). SO2 was imaged using the differential absorption properties of oxygenated [HbO2] and deoxygenated hemoglobin [dHb]. This study was carried out on two sibling murine mammary adenocarcinoma lines, 4T1 and 4T07. 2-NBDG uptake in the 4T1 tumors was lowest when rates of delivery and clearance were lowest, indicating perfusion-limited uptake in poorly oxygenated tumor regions. For increasing rates of delivery that were still lower than the glucose consumption rate (as measured in vitro), both 2-NBDG uptake and the clearance rate from the tumor increased. When the rate of delivery of 2-NBDG exceeded the glucose consumption rate, 2-NBDG uptake decreased with any further increase in rate of delivery, but the clearance rate continued to increase. This inflection point was not observed in the 4T07 tumors due to an absence of low delivery rates close to the glucose consumption rate. In the 4T07 tumors, 2-NBDG uptake increased with increasing rates of delivery at low rates of clearance. Our results demonstrate that 2-NBDG uptake in tumors is influenced by the rates of delivery and clearance of the tracer. The rates of delivery and clearance are, in turn, dependent on vascular oxygenation of the tumors. Knowledge of the kinetics of tracer uptake as well as vascular oxygenation is essential to make an informed assessment of glucose demand of a tumor.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • 4-Chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan / administration & dosage
  • 4-Chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan / analogs & derivatives*
  • 4-Chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan / metabolism
  • Animals
  • Breast Neoplasms / blood supply
  • Breast Neoplasms / metabolism*
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Deoxyglucose / administration & dosage
  • Deoxyglucose / analogs & derivatives*
  • Deoxyglucose / metabolism
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Female
  • Fluorescent Dyes / administration & dosage
  • Fluorescent Dyes / metabolism*
  • Hypoxia
  • Kinetics
  • Mice
  • Neoplasm Metastasis
  • Oxygen Consumption
  • Regional Blood Flow
  • Sulfur Dioxide / metabolism
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Fluorescent Dyes
  • Sulfur Dioxide
  • Deoxyglucose
  • 4-Chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan
  • 2-(N-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl)amino)-2-deoxyglucose

Grants and funding

Funding was provided by a Department of Defense Era of Hope Scholar Award (W81XWH-09-1-0410; PI: N. Ramanujam). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.