Radioiodine Therapy of Hepatoma Using Targeted Transfer of the Human Sodium/Iodide Symporter Gene
Libo Chen1,2,
Annette Altmann2,
Walter Mier3,
Helmut Eskerski2,
Karin Leotta2,
Lihe Guo4,
Ruisen Zhu1 and
Uwe Haberkorn2,3
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; 2 Clinical Cooperation Unit Nuclear Medicine, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; 3 Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; and 4 Division of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

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FIGURE 1. Expression of reporter gene (luciferase) driven by albumin enhancer/promoter in different cell lines. Data are expressed as mean ± SD (n = 3).
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FIGURE 2. Time course of iodide uptake by MH3924A and MHmAlbhNIS cells (A) and modulation of iodide uptake by DIDS, ouabain, and sodium perchlorate (B). Data are expressed as mean ± SD (n = 3).
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FIGURE 3. Iodide efflux from MHmAlbhNIS cells after 1-h incubation with Na125I. Data are expressed as mean ± SD (n = 3).
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FIGURE 4. Survival rates (%) of MH3924A and MHmAlbhNIS cells treated with Na131I. Data are expressed as mean ± SD (n = 3).
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FIGURE 5. Whole-body scintigraphic images (anterior view) of ACI rats subcutaneously transplanted with hNIS-expressing (right thigh) or wild-type Morris hepatoma cells (left thigh) at 30 min (A), 2 h (B), 4 h (C), and 24 h (D) after intravenous injection of 131I. T = thyroid; S = stomach; NIS = NIS-expressing tumor; WT = wild-type tumor.
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FIGURE 6. Biodistribution of radiotracer at different times after intraperitoneal administration of Na131I in ACI rats bearing MH3924A and MHmAlbhNIS tumor cells. Data are expressed as mean %ID/g ± SD (n = 3). WT = wild-type tumor (MH3924A).
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FIGURE 7. Antitumor effect of hNIS expression combined with radioiodide administration in ACI rats injected subcutaneously with wild-type MH3924A cells (A) or MHmAlbhNIS tumor cells (B). Data are expressed as mean ± SD (n = 5).
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