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Perfluorocarbon particle size influences magnetic resonance signal and immunological properties of dendritic cells

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Title:Perfluorocarbon particle size influences magnetic resonance signal and immunological properties of dendritic cells
Creators Name:Waiczies, H. and Lepore, S. and Janitzek, N. and Hagen, U. and Seifert, F. and Ittermann, B. and Purfürst, B. and Pezzutto, A. and Paul, F. and Niendorf, T. and Waiczies, S.
Abstract:The development of cellular tracking by fluorine ((19)F) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has introduced a number of advantages for following immune cell therapies in vivo. These include improved signal selectivity and a possibility to correlate cells labeled with fluorine-rich particles with conventional anatomic proton ((1)H) imaging. While the optimization of the cellular labeling method is clearly important, the impact of labeling on cellular dynamics should be kept in mind. We show by (19)F MR spectroscopy (MRS) that the efficiency in labeling cells of the murine immune system (dendritic cells) by perfluoro-15-crown-5-ether (PFCE) particles increases with increasing particle size (560>365>245>130 nm). Dendritic cells (DC) are professional antigen presenting cells and with respect to impact of PFCE particles on DC function, we observed that markers of maturation for these cells (CD80, CD86) were also significantly elevated following labeling with larger PFCE particles (560 nm). When labeled with these larger particles that also gave an optimal signal in MRS, DC presented whole antigen more robustly to CD8+ T cells than control cells. Our data suggest that increasing particle size is one important feature for optimizing cell labeling by PFCE particles, but may also present possible pitfalls such as alteration of the immunological status of these cells. Therefore depending on the clinical scenario in which the (19)F-labeled cellular vaccines will be applied (cancer, autoimmune disease, transplantation), it will be interesting to monitor the fate of these cells in vivo in the relevant preclinical mouse models.
Keywords:Cell Differentiation, Cell Shape, Dendritic Cells, Emulsions, Fluorocarbons, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Particle Size, Phagocytosis, T-Lymphocytes, Inbred C57BL Mice, Animals, Mice
Source:PLoS ONE
ISSN:1932-6203
Publisher:Public Library of Science
Volume:6
Number:7
Page Range:e21981
Date:19 July 2011
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021981
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