title: Human gliomas radioimmunoimaging with 131-I BC-2 murine IgG: preliminary report.
abstract: Ten patients with intracranial malignancies were studied by radioimmunoscintigraphy with I-131 BC-2 MoAb. Sensitivity and specificity of radioimmunoimaging were determined and compared with the results obtained with computed X-ray tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. BC-2 MoAb is a murine IgG1 anti-tenascin, which is not expressed by adult normal brain and has been found in large amount in gliomas and/or cerebral metastases, as well as other human tumors. Gamma-camera images obtained at 1 to 4 days exhibited increasing uptake of BC-2 in eight tumors, with varying degrees of contrast with the surrounding normal brain. Two lesions resulted negative to RIS: a meningioma and an oligodendroglioma. Specific tumor uptake of I-131 BC-2 was determined, by external gamma imaging, and ranged from 0.002 up to 0.007 percent of injected dose. Nonspecific uptake in the tumor was determined injecting 99m-Tc-FO23C5 (an isotype-matched control IgG1) in four patients and it was lower than 0.0001% ID. I-131 BC-2 tumor/nontumor ratios, measured using the geometric mean on digital images, ranged from 3 to 7.5:1. This study demonstrates that the tumor uptake of BC-2 in patients with glioma was due to specific processes.
authors.affiliation: Medicina Nucleare Ist. Tumori Napoli.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lastoria
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Castelli
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vergara
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Seccamani
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bonino
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mariani
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: De Santi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Simone
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ambrosio
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zardi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005910:Glioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D051379:Mice; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes