Cancer: Models and Experimental Therapy

Room A 104-105      10:30 - 12:30                                     Chairs: Dmitri Artemov and Tom Scheenen

10:30      238.    Non-Invasive Monitoring of Glutathione Metabolism and Heterogeneity in Rat Tumor Tissue

Peter Edward Thelwall1, Avner Y. Yemin1, Nicholas E. Simpson1, Theresa Schehl2, Jeffrey M. Macdonald2,

Stephen J. Blackband1, Michael P. Gamcsik3

1University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; 2University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; 3Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
 

10:42      239.    Choline Kinase Knock-Down in Human Breast Cancer Xenografts Monitored by 31P MR Spectroscopy

Kristine Glunde1, Venu Raman1, Noriko Mori1, Zaver M. Bhujwalla1

1Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
 

10:54      240.    MRS Ability to Predict Resistance Development to Imatinib Mesylate - not available

Jelena Miljus1, Junia V. Melo2, Nora Anderson1, Laszlo Boros3, S Gail Eckhardt1, Natalie S. Serkova1

1University of Colorado Health, Denver, Colorado, USA; 2Imperial College, London, UK; 3UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
 

11:06      241.    31P and 1H MRS Studies of Choline Kinase Inhibitor MN58b in a Colon Carcinoma Model

Yuen-Li Chung1, Helen Troy1, Ana Ramirez de Molina2, Basetti Madhu1, Ian R. Judson3, Paul Workman3,

Martin O. Leach3, Juan C. Lacal2, John R. Griffiths1

1St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK; 2Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain; 3Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
 

11:18      242.    Bold & Dynamic Enhanced MRI Contrasts: Online Followup of Tumor Photodynamic Therapy With PD-Bacteriochlorophyl Derivatives

Catherine Brami1, Michal Neeman1, Avigdor Scherz1, Yoram Salomon1

1Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
 

11:30      243.    Detecting Brain Tumor Therapy Responses Using Amide Proton Transfer Contrast

Jinyuan Zhou1,2, Peter C.M. van Zijl1,2, Amandeep Salhotra1,2, Phillip Zhe Sun1,2, Bachchu Lal, 1,2, John Laterra1,2

1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
 

11:42      244.    Investigation of Early ADC Changes in Response to Single Dose (1000cGy) Radiotherapy in a RIF-1 Tumor Model

Erica Corinne Henning1, Chieko Azuma2, Christopher H. Sotak1, 3, Karl G. Helmer1

1Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; 2Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA; 3University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
 

11:54      245.    Dual Na/ADC Biomarker Assessment of Rat Glioma During BCNU Chemotherapy

Victor D. Schepkin1, Thomas L. Chenevert1, Brian D. Ross1

1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
 

12:06      246.    Longitudinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study of a Rat Brain Glioma Model

Silvia Lope-Piedrafita1, María Luisa García-Martín1, Jean Philippe Galons1, Robert J. Gillies1, Theodore P. Trouard1

1University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
 

12:18      247.    Characterizing Extravascular Fluid Transport of Macromolecules in the Tumor Interstitium by MRI

Arvind P. Pathak1, Dmitri Artemov1, B D. Ward2, David G. Jackson3, Michal Neeman4, Zaver M. Bhujwalla1

1Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; 3Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK; 4Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel