PMID: 3756081Sep 1, 1986Paper

A novel technique for measuring human tissue pO2 at the cellular level

British Journal of Cancer
R C UrtasunJ D Chapman

Abstract

Some electron-affinic drugs, developed as hypoxic cell radiosensitizers, become selectively bound to the molecules of hypoxic cells by metabolism. This technique has been used to identify zones of chronically hypoxic cells in multicellular spheroids and animal tumours. Tritiated-misonidazole was administered to a patient with advanced melanoma 22 h prior to the surgical resection of a large metastatic s.c. lesion growing on the face. Autoradiographic analysis of histological sections revealed zones of intense labelling by the radioactive drug, indicative of tumour cells which were chronically hypoxic. This technique appears to provide an indirect measurement of tissue pO2 at the cellular level from which estimates of the tumour hypoxic fraction can be made. These data are encouraging as regards the development of 'sensitizer-adduct' procedures for the invasive and non-invasive measurement of hypoxia in both tumours and normal tissues.

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