Subramaniam Sukumar1,
Robert A. Bok2, Daniel B. Vigneron3, Pankaj Seth4,
John Kurhanewicz1
1Radiology
and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, United States; 2Radiology
and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San
Francisco, CA, United States; 3Radiology and Biomedical imaging,
UCSF, San Francisco, CA, United States; 4Medicine, Beth Israel
Deaconess Med Center, Boston, MA, United States
Lactate Dehydrogenase expression and activity is up-regulated in various malignancies, including prostate cancer. In a recently developed transgenic mouse model, in which the LDH-A gene is deleted selectively in a temporal fashion, hyperpolarized 13C frequency specific MRI method was used to monitor early changes in LDH-A expression within prostate tumor tissue.