| Literature DB >> 31184789 |
Kanchan Sonkar1, Vinay Ayyappan1, Caitlin M Tressler1, Oluwatobi Adelaja1, Ruoqing Cai1, Menglin Cheng1, Kristine Glunde1,2.
Abstract
Activated choline metabolism is a hallmark of carcinogenesis and tumor progression, which leads to elevated levels of phosphocholine and glycerophosphocholine in all types of cancer tested so far. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy applications have played a key role in detecting these elevated choline phospholipid metabolites. To date, the majority of cancer-related studies have focused on phosphocholine and the Kennedy pathway, which constitutes the biosynthesis pathway for membrane phosphatidylcholine. Fewer and more recent studies have reported on the importance of glycerophosphocholine in cancer. In this review article, we summarize the recent literature on glycerophosphocholine metabolism with respect to its cancer biology and its detection by magnetic resonance spectroscopy applications.Entities:
Keywords: MR spectroscopy (MRS) and spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) methods; applications: cellular and molecular cancer imaging; applications: metastases; cancer; cancer therapy responses; cancer: applications; methods and engineering: cancer
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Year: 2019 PMID: 31184789 PMCID: PMC6803034 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4112
Source DB: PubMed Journal: NMR Biomed ISSN: 0952-3480 Impact factor: 4.044