Lactate Production Precedes Inflammatory Cell Recruitment in Arthritic Ankles : an Imaging Study

PURPOSE: Inflammation is involved in many disease processes. However, accurate imaging tools permitting diagnosis and characterization of inflammation are still missing. As inflamed tissues exhibit a high rate of glycolysis, pyruvate metabolism may offer a unique approach to follow the inflammatory response and disease progression. Therefore, the aim of the study was to follow metabolic changes and recruitment of inflammatory cells after onset of inflammation in arthritic ankles using hyperpolarized 1-13C-pyruvate magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and 19F magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), respectively.

PROCEDURE: Experimental rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was induced by intraperitoneal injection of glucose-6-phosphate-isomerase-specific antibodies (GPI) containing serum. To monitor pyruvate metabolism, the transformation of hyperpolarized 1-13C-pyruvate into hyperpolarized 1-13C-lactate was followed using MRS. To track phagocytic immune cell homing, we intravenously injected a perfluorocarbon emulsion 48 h before imaging. The animals were scanned at days 1, 3, or 6 after GPI-serum injection to examine the different stages of arthritic inflammation. Finally, to confirm the pyruvate metabolic activity and the link to inflammatory cell recruitment, we conducted hematoxylin-eosin histopathology and monocarboxylase transporter (MCT-1) immune histochemistry (IHC) of inflamed ankles.

RESULTS: Hyperpolarized 1-13C-pyruvate MRS revealed a high rate of lactate production immediately at day 1 after GPI-serum transfer, which remained elevated during the progression of the disease, while 19F-MRI exhibited a gradual recruitment of phagocytic immune cells in arthritic ankles, which correlated well with the course of ankle swelling. Histopathology and IHC revealed that MCT-1 was expressed in regions with inflammatory cell recruitment, confirming the metabolic shift identified in arthritic ankles.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study demonstrated the presence of a very early metabolic shift in arthritic joints independent of phagocytic immune cell recruitment. Thus, hyperpolarized 1-13C-pyruvate represents a promising tracer to monitor acute arthritic joint inflammation, even with minor ankle swelling. Furthermore, translated to the clinics, these methods add a detailed characterization of disease status and could substantially support patient stratification and therapy monitoring.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

Molecular imaging and biology - 22(2020), 5 vom: 08. Okt., Seite 1324-1332

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Neveu, Marie-Aline [VerfasserIn]
Beziere, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Daniels, Rolf [VerfasserIn]
Bouzin, Caroline [VerfasserIn]
Comment, Arnaud [VerfasserIn]
Schwenck, Johannes [VerfasserIn]
Fuchs, Kerstin [VerfasserIn]
Kneilling, Manfred [VerfasserIn]
Pichler, Bernd J [VerfasserIn]
Schmid, Andreas M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

19F-MRI
284SYP0193
33X04XA5AT
8558G7RUTR
Carbon Isotopes
Carbon-13
FDJ0A8596D
Fluorine
Hyperpolarized 13C-MRS
Immune imaging
Journal Article
Lactate
Lactic Acid
Pyruvic Acid
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Rheumatoid arthritis

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Date Completed 10.08.2021

Date Revised 12.11.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11307-020-01510-y

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM310943299