M Straub1,2, D M Sigman3, A Auderset4, J Ollivier5, B Petit5, B Hinnenberg4, F Rubach4, S Oleynik3, M-C Vozenin5, A Martínez-García4. 1. Institute of Radiation Physics, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland. marietta.straub@chuv.ch. 2. Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128, Mainz, Germany. marietta.straub@chuv.ch. 3. Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA. 4. Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128, Mainz, Germany. 5. Radiation Oncology Laboratory/DO/Radio-Oncology/CHUV, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Cancerous cells can recycle metabolic ammonium for their growth. As this ammonium has a low nitrogen isotope ratio (15N/14N), its recycling may cause cancer tissue to have lower 15N/14N than surrounding healthy tissue. We investigated whether, within a given tissue type in individual mice, tumoral and healthy tissues could be distinguished based on their 15N/14N. METHODS: Micro-biopsies of murine tumors and adjacent tissues were analyzed for 15N/14N using novel high-sensitivity methods. Isotopic analysis was pursued in Nude and C57BL/6 mice models with mature orthotopic brain and head&neck tumors generated by implantation of H454 and MEERL95 murine cells, respectively. RESULTS: In the 7 mice analyzed, the brain tumors had distinctly lower 15N/14N than healthy neural tissue. In the 5 mice with head&neck tumors, the difference was smaller and more variable. This was at least partly due to infiltration of healthy head&neck tissue by tumor cells. However, it may also indicate that the 15N/14N difference between tumoral and healthy tissue depends on the nitrogen metabolism of the healthy organ in question. CONCLUSIONS: The findings, coupled with the high sensitivity of the 15N/14N measurement method used here, suggest a new approach for micro-biopsy-based diagnosis of malignancy as well as an avenue for investigation of cancer metabolism.
BACKGROUND:n class="Disease">Cancerous cells can recycle metabolic ammonium for their growth. As this ammonium has a low nitrogen isotope ratio (15N/14N), its recycling may cause cancer tissue to have lower 15N/14N than surrounding healthy tissue. We investigated whether, within a given tissue type in individual mice, tumoral and healthy tissues could be distinguished based on their 15N/14N. METHODS: Micro-biopsies of murinetumors and adjacent tissues were analyzed for 15N/14N using novel high-sensitivity methods. Isotopic analysis was pursued in Nude and C57BL/6 mice models with mature orthotopic brain and head&neck tumors generated by implantation of H454 and MEERL95 murine cells, respectively. RESULTS: In the 7 mice analyzed, the brain tumors had distinctly lower 15N/14N than healthy neural tissue. In the 5 mice with head&neck tumors, the difference was smaller and more variable. This was at least partly due to infiltration of healthy head&neck tissue by tumor cells. However, it may also indicate that the 15N/14N difference between tumoral and healthy tissue depends on the nitrogen metabolism of the healthy organ in question. CONCLUSIONS: The findings, coupled with the high sensitivity of the 15N/14N measurement method used here, suggest a new approach for micro-biopsy-based diagnosis of malignancy as well as an avenue for investigation of cancer metabolism.
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