An electric-field-responsive paramagnetic contrast agent enhances the visualization of epileptic foci in mouse models of drug-resistant epilepsy

For patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy, excision of the epileptogenic zone is the most effective treatment approach. However, the surgery is less effective in the 15-30% of patients whose lesions are not distinct when visualized by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Here, we show that an intravenously administered MRI contrast agent consisting of a paramagnetic polymer coating encapsulating a superparamagnetic cluster of ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide crosses the blood-brain barrier and improves lesion visualization with high sensitivity and target-to-background ratio. In kainic-acid-induced mouse models of drug-resistant focal epilepsy, electric-field changes in the brain associated with seizures trigger breakdown of the contrast agent, restoring the T1-weighted magnetic resonance signal, which otherwise remains quenched due to the distance-dependent magnetic resonance tuning effect between the cluster and the coating. The electric-field-responsive contrast agent may increase the probability of detecting seizure foci in patients and facilitate the study of brain diseases associated with epilepsy.

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CommentIn: Nat Biomed Eng. 2021 Mar;5(3):199-200. - PMID 33727711

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:5

Enthalten in:

Nature biomedical engineering - 5(2021), 3 vom: 29. März, Seite 278-289

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Cong [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Wanbing [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jianping [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Qinghua [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Xingyu [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Dandan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Haoran [VerfasserIn]
Qi, Ming [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Xihui [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Haiyan [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Zhaobing [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Mei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Hong [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jianhong [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Zixuan [VerfasserIn]
Long, Nicholas J [VerfasserIn]
Mao, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Li, Cong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

1K09F3G675
Contrast Media
Ferric Compounds
Ferric oxide
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 12.04.2021

Date Revised 28.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Nat Biomed Eng. 2021 Mar;5(3):199-200. - PMID 33727711

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41551-020-00618-4

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NLM315599596