Abstract:
Purpose:
Assessment of [18F] FLT as tracer to determine early changes in cellular proliferation activity after chemotherapy in breast cancer cells.
Material and Methods:
MCF-7 cells were incubated with taxotere and adriamycine with drug doses corresponding to IC 25, 50, 75, 90 und 95 of both drugs. Celllular FLT-uptake was determined 4, 24, 72 and 120h after drug incubation. Cytotoxic effect of treatment was determined by cell counts, viability, clonogenic activity, cell cycle distribution and 3H-thymidine-incorporation and correlated with FLT-uptake.
Results:
FLT-uptake was reduced 4h after incubation of MCF-7 cells with IC 95 of taxotere to 36,6% 10-5 compared to control values, highest reduction was seen after 72h with 11,9% total control values. Simultaneously thritium tymidine incorporation showed lowest levels after 4h, S-phase faction woth 25,7% and GsM cell fraction highest levels with 25,3% after incubation with taxotere. Similar 4h after incubation with IC 95 of adriamycine a reduced FLT-uptake to 29% of total control with highest suppression after 72h with IC 95 resulting in 2,85% of total control values. In accoradance to that data thritium-thyimidine incorporation was reduced to 48,8% of control values 4h after incubation with IC 95 of adriamycine, S-phase faction showed lowest cell number with 25,1% and GsM fraction highest values of 44,1%.
Conclusion:
FLT-uptake showed a reduction 4h after incubation with IC 95 if taxotere and adriamycine in MCF-7 cells. That data were confirmed by simultaneous reduced thritium-thymidine incorporation, less S-phase fraction and higher G2M-phase fraction compared to control values. [18F] FLT is a promising radionucleotid to detect early changes in proliferation of breast cancer cells.