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1 January 2010 Preferential accumulation of 5-aminolevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX in breast cancer: a comprehensive study on six breast cell lines with varying phenotypes
Stacy R. Millon, Julie H. Ostrander, Siavash Yazdanfar, J. Quincy Brown, Janelle Elise Bender, Anita Rajeha, Nirmala Ramanujam
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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 15, Issue 1, 018002 (January 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3302811
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We describe the potential of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA)-induced protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) fluorescence as a source of contrast for margin detection in commonly diagnosed breast cancer subtypes. Fluorescence intensity of PpIX in untreated and ALA-treated normal mammary epithelial and breast cancer cell lines of varying estrogen receptor expression were quantitatively imaged with confocal microscopy. Percentage change in fluorescence intensity integrated over 610-700 nm (attributed to PpIX) of posttreated compared to pretreated cells showed statistically significant differences between four breast cancer and two normal mammary epithelial cell lines. However, a direct comparison of post-treatment PpIX fluorescence intensities showed no differences between breast cancer and normal mammary epithelial cell lines due to confounding effects by endogenous fluorescence from flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). Clinically, it is impractical to obtain pre- and post-treatment images. Thus, spectral imaging was demonstrated as a means to remove the effects of endogenous FAD fluorescence allowing for discrimination between post-treatment PpIX fluorescence of four breast cancer and two normal mammary epithelial cell lines. Fluorescence spectral imaging of ALA-treated breast cancer cells showed preferential PpIX accumulation regardless of malignant phenotype and suggests a useful contrast mechanism for discrimination of residual cancer at the surface of breast tumor margins.
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Stacy R. Millon, Julie H. Ostrander, Siavash Yazdanfar, J. Quincy Brown, Janelle Elise Bender, Anita Rajeha, and Nirmala Ramanujam "Preferential accumulation of 5-aminolevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX in breast cancer: a comprehensive study on six breast cell lines with varying phenotypes," Journal of Biomedical Optics 15(1), 018002 (1 January 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3302811
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Luminescence
Breast cancer
Confocal microscopy
Breast
Tissues
Cancer
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