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Non-Invasive Evaluation of Acute Effects of Tubulin Binding Agents: A Review of Imaging Vascular Disruption in Tumors

li Liu
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Devin O’Kelly
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Regan Schuetze
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Graham Carlson
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Heling Zhou
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Mary Lynn Trawick
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Kevin G Pinney
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Ralph P. Peter Mason
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Version 1 : Received: 27 March 2021 / Approved: 30 March 2021 / Online: 30 March 2021 (12:54:26 CEST)

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Liu, L.; O’Kelly, D.; Schuetze, R.; Carlson, G.; Zhou, H.; Trawick, M.L.; Pinney, K.G.; Mason, R.P. Non-Invasive Evaluation of Acute Effects of Tubulin Binding Agents: A Review of Imaging Vascular Disruption in Tumors. Molecules 2021, 26, 2551. Liu, L.; O’Kelly, D.; Schuetze, R.; Carlson, G.; Zhou, H.; Trawick, M.L.; Pinney, K.G.; Mason, R.P. Non-Invasive Evaluation of Acute Effects of Tubulin Binding Agents: A Review of Imaging Vascular Disruption in Tumors. Molecules 2021, 26, 2551.

Abstract

Tumor vasculature proliferates rapidly, generally lacks pericyte coverage, and is uniquely frag-ile making it an attractive therapeutic target. A subset of small-molecule tubulin binding agents cause disaggregation of the endothelial cytoskeleton leading to enhanced vascular permeability generating increased interstitial pressure. The resulting vascular collapse and ischemia cause downstream hypoxia, ultimately leading to cell death and necrosis. Thus, local damage gener-ates massive amplification and tumor destruction. The tumor vasculature is readily accessed and potentially a common target irrespective of disease site in the body. Development of a therapeutic approach and particularly next generation agents benefits from effective non-invasive assays. Imaging technologies offer varying degrees of sophistication and ease of implementation. This review considers technological strengths and weaknesses with examples from our own laboratory. Methods reveal vascular extent and patency, as well as insights into tissue viability, proliferation and necrosis. Spatiotemporal resolution ranges from cellular mi-croscopy to single slice tomography and full three-dimensional views of whole tumors and measurements can be sufficiently rapid to reveal acute changes or long-term outcomes. Since imaging is non-invasive, each tumor may serve as its own control making investigations par-ticularly efficient and rigorous. The concept of tumor vascular disruption was proposed over 30 years ago and it remains an active area of research.

Keywords

imaging; bioluminescence; photoacoustics; magnetic resonance imaging; vascular disrupting agents; inhib-itors of tubulin polymerization; breast cancer; kidney cancer; lung cancer; combretastatins; predictive imaging

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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