title: Intrapericardial administration of basic fibroblast growth factor: myocardial and tissue distribution and comparison with intracoronary and intravenous administration.
abstract: Growth factor-induced angiogenesis is being investigated in ischemic heart disease. Intracoronary and intravenous delivery are the most practical, but are limited by low myocardial uptake and significant systemic recirculation. The pericardial space may act as a drug delivery reservoir with increased myocardial uptake and reduced systemic toxicities. This study was designed to investigate the myocardial and tissue deposition and retention of basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) after intrapericardial administration in normal and chronically ischemic animals. Twelve Yorkshire pigs were used for the study [six normal and six animals with chronic myocardial ischemia (ameroid constrictor on LCx)] with bolus intrapericardial administration of (125)I-FGF-2 (25 micro Ci) with 30 micro g of cold FGF-2 and 3 mg of heparin. Tissue and myocardial distribution was determined at 1 and 24 hr by measuring (125)I-bFGF-specific activity. In addition, regional myocardial deposition was determined using (125)I-bFGF activity and organ level autoradiography. The heart (pericardium and myocardium) accounted for the majority of (125)I-bFGF activity in ischemic animals (30.9% at 1 hr and 23.9% at 24 hr). Left anterior descending artery territory activity/gm of tissue for nonischemic and ischemic animals was 0.01% and 0.01% at 1 hr and 0.0009% and 0.12% at 24 hr, respectively. LCx territory activity for nonischemic and ischemic animals was 0.006% and 0.008% at 1 hr and 0.03% and 0.05% at 24 hr, respectively. Endocardial activity was low at all time points. Liver uptake was 0.47% (nonischemic) and 0.34% (ischemic) at 1 hr and 0.23% (nonischemic) and 0.54% (ischemic) at 24 hr. Intrapericardial delivery of FGF-2 provides markedly higher myocardial deposition and retention and lower systemic recirculation than intracoronary or intravenous delivery at the expense of poor subendocardial penetration. This limitation, however, did not affect its efficacy.
authors.affiliation: Angiogenesis Research Center, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Divisions, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. rlaham@caregroup.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Roger J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Laham
authors.forename: Mehrdad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rezaee
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Post
authors.forename: Xunyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Frank W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Sellke
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001345:Autoradiography; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D016222:Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000187:drug effects*; D007267:Injections; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D007322:Instillation, Drug; D008297:Male; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010496:Pericardium / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000187:drug effects*; D011859:Radiography; D013552:Swine; D014018:Tissue Distribution / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D016222:Fibroblast Growth Factor 2