Martin J MacKinnon1,2,3,4, Bruce A Berkowitz5, Yen-Yu Ian Shih1,2,3,4. 1. Center for Animal MRI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. 2. Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. 3. Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. 4. Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. 5. Department of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences, Wayne State School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: QuEnch-assiSTed (QUEST) MRI provides a unique biomarker of excessive production of paramagnetic free radicals (oxidative stress) in vivo. The contribution from superoxide, a common upstream species found in oxidative stress-based disease, to the QUEST metric is unclear. Here, we begin to address this question by measuring superoxide spin-lattice relaxivity (r1) in phantoms. METHODS: Stable superoxide free radicals were generated in water phantoms of potassium superoxide ( KO 2 ) . To measure r1, 1/T1 of different concentration solutions of KO2 in the presence and absence of the antioxidant superoxide dismutase were measured. The 1/T1 confounding factors including acquisition sequence, pH, and water source were also evaluated. RESULTS: The T1 -weighted signal intensity increased with KO2 concentration. No contribution from pH, or reaction products other than superoxide, noted on 1/T1 . Superoxide r1 was measured to be 0.29 mM-1 s-1 , in agreement with that reported for paramagnetic molecular oxygen and nitroxide free radicals. CONCLUSION: Our first-in-kind measurement of superoxide free radical r1 suggests a detection sensitivity of QUEST MRI on the order of tens of μM, within the reported level of free radical production during oxidative stress in vivo. Similar studies for other common free radicals are needed.
PURPOSE: QuEnch-assiSTed (QUEST) MRI provides a unique biomarker of excessive production of paramagnetic free radicals (oxidative stress) in vivo. The contribution from superoxide, a common upstream species found in oxidative stress-based disease, to the QUEST metric is unclear. Here, we begin to address this question by measuring superoxide spin-lattice relaxivity (r1) in phantoms. METHODS: Stable superoxide free radicals were generated in water phantoms of potassium superoxide ( KO 2 ) . To measure r1, 1/T1 of different concentration solutions of KO2 in the presence and absence of the antioxidant superoxide dismutase were measured. The 1/T1 confounding factors including acquisition sequence, pH, and water source were also evaluated. RESULTS: The T1 -weighted signal intensity increased with KO2 concentration. No contribution from pH, or reaction products other than superoxide, noted on 1/T1 . Superoxide r1 was measured to be 0.29 mM-1 s-1 , in agreement with that reported for paramagnetic molecular oxygen and nitroxide free radicals. CONCLUSION: Our first-in-kind measurement of superoxide free radical r1 suggests a detection sensitivity of QUEST MRI on the order of tens of μM, within the reported level of free radical production during oxidative stress in vivo. Similar studies for other common free radicals are needed.
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