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ArticleInternal medicine: open access2019

MRI Assessment of Associations between Brown Adipose Tissue and Cachexia in Murine Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.

Yaqi Zhang, Su Hu, Junjie Shangguan, Liang Pan, Xin Zhou, Vahid Yaghmai, Yuri Velichko, Chunhong Hu, Jia Yang, Zhuoli Zhang

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Article in Internal medicine: open access, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yaqi ZhangDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Su HuDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Junjie ShangguanDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Liang PanDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Xin ZhouTianjin Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Target Organ Injury, Pingjin Hospital, Tianjin, China.
Vahid YaghmaiDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Yuri VelichkoDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Chunhong HuDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Jia YangDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Zhuoli ZhangDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Northwestern University · USPingjin Hospital · CNSoochow University · CN

Funding

MRI-Guided Dendritic-Cell-Based Vaccine Immunotherapy for Pancreatic CancerR01CA209886 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Vahid Yaghmai, Zhuoli Zhang · 2016 to 2026
$3.3M
MRI-Guided Irreversible Electroporation Ablation for Liver TumorsR01CA196967 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI ZHANG, ZHUOLI · 2015 to 2018
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA196967NCI NIH HHS R01 CA209886
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveAs the major thermogenic tissue in body, the brown adipose tissue (BAT) was recently identified as an important factor to induce the rapid weight loss and malnutrition in malignancy. Current methods for detecting and quantifying brown adipose tissue (BAT) are in limited use. The aim of this study was to evaluate the changes of BAT tissue and its function in the development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) by using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

methodsTen-week-old female C57BL/6 mice were inoculated orthotopically with Pan02 tumor cells. R2* maps and two-point Dixon MRI were performed weekly for evaluation of BAT function and volume, respectively. The T2-weighted MRI was applied weekly for monitoring tumor growth. Meanwhile, the body weight was measured daily as another indication of malnutrition. The UCP1 levels in BAT and white adipose tissue (WAT) were assessed. The serum IL-6 was also measured as the biomarker of cancer-associated cachexia.

resultsT2-weighted MRI indicated the rapid tumor growth from week 3 to week 5 after tumor cell inoculation. The water-fat separated MRI could clearly identify and quantify the BAT. The function and volume of BAT could be monitored by weekly MRI measurement in tumor-bearing mice. The total body weights of PDAC tumor-bearing mice were relatively stable, however, was significantly lower than that of control C57BL/6 mice.

conclusionThe results of this study demonstrated the feasibility of detection and quantification of BAT

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Brown adipose tissueCachexiaMR imagingPancreatic cancer

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