中国物理B ›› 2018, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (11): 118703-118703.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/27/11/118703

• INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS AND RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY • 上一篇    下一篇

Effects of 3.7 T–24.5 T high magnetic fields on tumor-bearing mice

Xiaofei Tian(田小飞), Ze Wang(王泽), Lei Zhang(张磊), Chuanying Xi(郗传英), Li Pi(皮雳), Ziping Qi(齐紫平), Qingyou Lu(陆轻铀), Xin Zhang(张欣)   

  1. 1 High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Key Laboratory of High Magnetic Field and Ion Beam Physical Biology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China;
    2 Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China;
    3 Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;
    4 Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics at Extreme Conditions, Hefei 230031, China
  • 收稿日期:2018-06-28 修回日期:2018-09-10 出版日期:2018-11-05 发布日期:2018-11-05
  • 通讯作者: Qingyou Lu, Xin Zhang E-mail:qxl@ustc.edu.cn;xinzhang@hmfl.ac.cn
  • 基金资助:

    Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant Nos. 2016YFA0400900 and 2017YFA0402903), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U1532151 and 51627901), the Major/Innovative Program of Development Foundation of Hefei Center for Physical Science, Technology (Grant No. 2016FXCX004), Hefei Science Center, CAS (Grant No. 2016HSC-IU007), and the CASHIPS Director's Fund (Grant No. YZJJ201704) to Qingyou Lu and Xin Zhang.

Effects of 3.7 T–24.5 T high magnetic fields on tumor-bearing mice

Xiaofei Tian(田小飞)1,2, Ze Wang(王泽)1,3, Lei Zhang(张磊)1, Chuanying Xi(郗传英)1, Li Pi(皮雳)1, Ziping Qi(齐紫平)1, Qingyou Lu(陆轻铀)1,3,4, Xin Zhang(张欣)1,2   

  1. 1 High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Key Laboratory of High Magnetic Field and Ion Beam Physical Biology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China;
    2 Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China;
    3 Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;
    4 Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics at Extreme Conditions, Hefei 230031, China
  • Received:2018-06-28 Revised:2018-09-10 Online:2018-11-05 Published:2018-11-05
  • Contact: Qingyou Lu, Xin Zhang E-mail:qxl@ustc.edu.cn;xinzhang@hmfl.ac.cn
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant Nos. 2016YFA0400900 and 2017YFA0402903), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U1532151 and 51627901), the Major/Innovative Program of Development Foundation of Hefei Center for Physical Science, Technology (Grant No. 2016FXCX004), Hefei Science Center, CAS (Grant No. 2016HSC-IU007), and the CASHIPS Director's Fund (Grant No. YZJJ201704) to Qingyou Lu and Xin Zhang.

摘要:

Since high magnetic field (MF) intensity can improve the image quality and reduce magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition time, the field intensity of MRIs has continued to increase over the past few decades. Although MRIs in most current hospitals are 0.5 T-3 T, there are preclinical studies have been carried out using 9.4 T MRI, and engineers are also putting efforts on building MRIs with even higher MFs. However, the accompanied safety issue of high-field MRIs is an emergent question to address before their clinical applications. In the meantime, the static magnetic field (SMF) has been shown to inhibit tumor growth in previous studies. Here, we investigated both the safety issue and the anti-tumor potentials of 3.7 T-24.5 T SMFs on GIST-T1 gastrointestinal stromal tumor-bearing nude mice. We followed up the mice three weeks after their exposure to high SMF and found that none of the mice died or had severe organ damage, except for slightly decreased food intake, weight gain, and liver function. Moreover, the tumor growth was inhibited by 3.7 T-24.5 T SMFs (up to~54%). It is interesting that the effects are more dependent on MF gradient than intensities, and for the same gradient and intensity, mice responded differently to hypogravity and hypergravity conditions. Therefore, our study not only demonstrated the safeness of high SMFs up to 24.5 T on mice but also revealed their anti-tumor potentials in the future.

关键词: static magnetic field (SMF), high magnetic field (MF), tumor, magnetic field gradient

Abstract:

Since high magnetic field (MF) intensity can improve the image quality and reduce magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition time, the field intensity of MRIs has continued to increase over the past few decades. Although MRIs in most current hospitals are 0.5 T-3 T, there are preclinical studies have been carried out using 9.4 T MRI, and engineers are also putting efforts on building MRIs with even higher MFs. However, the accompanied safety issue of high-field MRIs is an emergent question to address before their clinical applications. In the meantime, the static magnetic field (SMF) has been shown to inhibit tumor growth in previous studies. Here, we investigated both the safety issue and the anti-tumor potentials of 3.7 T-24.5 T SMFs on GIST-T1 gastrointestinal stromal tumor-bearing nude mice. We followed up the mice three weeks after their exposure to high SMF and found that none of the mice died or had severe organ damage, except for slightly decreased food intake, weight gain, and liver function. Moreover, the tumor growth was inhibited by 3.7 T-24.5 T SMFs (up to~54%). It is interesting that the effects are more dependent on MF gradient than intensities, and for the same gradient and intensity, mice responded differently to hypogravity and hypergravity conditions. Therefore, our study not only demonstrated the safeness of high SMFs up to 24.5 T on mice but also revealed their anti-tumor potentials in the future.

Key words: static magnetic field (SMF), high magnetic field (MF), tumor, magnetic field gradient

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