title: Specific intensity imaging for glioblastoma and neural cell cultures with 5-aminolevulinic acid-derived protoporphyrin IX.
abstract: The fluorescence of protophorphyrin IX (PpIX) synthesized after incubation with 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-Ala) is used for the intraoperative visualisation of glioma cells in vivo. Such fluorescence may also be useful for the photodynamic therapy (PTD) of gliomas. A significant difference of fluorescence intensity in tumor cells compared to neurons is required for this application. To explore this, eight human glioma cell lines (LN-18, LN-428, U87MG, U373MG, D247MG, U251MG, LN-308, T98G) were compared with human astrocytes (SV-FHAS) and rat neurons after incubation for different periods of time in vitro with 5-Ala (1 mg/ml). Fluorescence intensity profiles were measured by a digital camera comparing glioma cell lines with control cells. All glioma cell lines could be discriminated from neural cells by their intensity of fluorescence by post-hoc tests for pairwise comparisons using Tukey's honestly significant difference test, at the global significance level of 5%. The glioma cell lines showed significant variation in this possibly limiting clinical use of fluorescence as a guide for resection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Eberhard-Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Duffner
authors.forename: Rainer
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ritz
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Freudenstein
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weller
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dietz
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wessels
mesh_terms: D000622:Aminolevulinic Acid; D000818:Animals; D001253:Astrocytes; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005453:Fluorescence; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons; D017319:Photosensitizing Agents; D011524:Protoporphyrins; D051381:Rats; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D017319:Photosensitizing Agents; D011524:Protoporphyrins; D000622:Aminolevulinic Acid; C028025:protoporphyrin IX