Advanced magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral cavernous malformations: part II. Imaging of lesions in murine models.
Advanced magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral cavernous malformations: part II. Imaging of lesions in murine models.
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脑海绵状血管瘤的高级磁共振成像:第二部分。小鼠模型中病变的成像。
DOI:
10.1227/01.neu.0000315862.24920.49
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发表时间:
2008-10
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影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Awad IA
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作者:
Shenkar R;Venkatasubramanian PN;Wyrwicz AM;Zhao JC;Shi C;Akers A;Marchuk DA;Awad IA
We sought to assess the appearance of cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) on magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in murine Ccm1 and Ccm2 gene knockout models, and to develop a technique of lesion localization for correlative pathobiologic studies Brains from eighteen CCM mutant mice (Ccm1+/-Trp53-/- and Ccm2+/-Trp53-/-) and 28 controls were imaged by gradient recalled echo (T2*)-weighted MR at 4.7 T and 14.1 T in vivo and/or ex vivo. After MR imaging, the brains were removed and stained with hematoxylin and eosin and cells were laser microdissected for molecular biologic studies. T2*-weighted MR imaging of brains in vivo and ex vivo revealed lesions similar to human CCMs in mutant mice, but not in control animals. Stereotactic localization and hematoxylin and eosin-staining of correlative tissue sections confirmed lesion histology, and revealed other areas of dilated capillaries in the same brains. Some lesions were identified by MR imaging at 14.1 T, but not at 4.7 T. PCR amplification from Ccm1 and β-actin genes was demonstrated from nucleic acids extracted from laser microdissected lesional and perilesional cells. The high field MR imaging techniques offer new opportunities for further investigation of disease pathogenesis in vivo, and the localization, staging and histobiologic dissection of lesions, including the presumed earliest stages of CCM lesion development.