التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Noninvasive imaging of pancreatic islet inflammation in type 1A diabetes patients. |
| المؤلفون: |
Gaglia, Jason L.1,2,3, Guimaraes, Alexander R.2,4, Harisinghani, Mukesh2,4, Turvey, Stuart E.3, Jackson, Richard3, Benoist, Christophe1,3,5, Mathis, Diane1,3,5,6 cbdm@hms.harvard.edu, Weissleder, Ralph2,4,5,6,7 rweissleder@mgh.harvard.edu |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Clinical Investigation. Jan2011, Vol. 121 Issue 1, p442-445. 4p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Chart, 2 Graphs. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*DIABETES, *AUTOIMMUNE diseases, *LEUCOCYTES, *ISLANDS of Langerhans, *PEOPLE with diabetes, *LANGERHANS cells, *DISEASE progression, *COMPARATIVE studies, *DEXTRAN, *INFLAMMATION, *TYPE 1 diabetes, *IRON compounds, *MACROPHAGES, *MAGNETIC resonance imaging, *RESEARCH methodology, *MEDICAL cooperation, *MICROCIRCULATION, *MONOCYTES, *RESEARCH, *EVALUATION research, *CASE-control method |
| مستخلص: |
Type 1A diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by leukocyte infiltration of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans. A major impediment to advances in understanding, preventing, and curing T1D has been the inability to "see" the disease initiate, progress, or regress, especially during the occult phase. Here, we report the development of a noninvasive method to visualize T1D at the target organ level in patients with active insulitis. Specifically, we visualized islet inflammation, manifest by microvascular changes and monocyte/macrophage recruitment and activation, using magnetic resonance imaging of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs). As a proof of principle for this approach, imaging of infused ferumoxtran-10 nanoparticles permitted effective visualization of the pancreas and distinction of recent-onset diabetes patients from nondiabetic controls. The observation that MNPs accumulate in the pancreas of T1D patients opens the door to exploiting this noninvasive imaging method to follow T1D progression and monitoring the ability of immunomodulatory agents to clear insulitis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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