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:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays an important role in aggravating invasiveness and metastatic behavior of colorectal cancer (CRC). Identification of EMT is important for structuring treatment strategy, but has not yet been studied by using noninvasive imaging modality. Diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) is an advanced diffusion weighted model that could reflect tissue microstructural changes in vivo. In this study, EMT was induced in CRC cells (HCT116) by overexpressing Snail1 gene. We aimed to investigate the value of DKI in identifying EMT in CRC and decipher the correlations between DKI-derived parameters and EMT biomarker E-cadherin and cell proliferative index Ki-67 expression. Our results revealed that HCT116/Snail1 cells presented changes consistent with EMT resulting in significant increase in migration and invasion capacities. DKI could identify CRC with EMT, in which the DKI-derived parameter diffusivity was significantly lower, and kurtosis was significantly higher than those in the CRC/Control. Diffusivity was negatively and kurtosis was positively correlated with Ki-67 expression, whereas diffusivity was positively and kurtosis was negatively correlated with E-cadherin expression. Therefore, our study concluded that DKI can identify EMT in CRC xenograft tumors. EMT-contained CRC tumors with high Ki-67 and low E-cadherin expression were vulnerable to have lower diffusivity and higher kurtosis coefficients.
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Liu H,Shen W,Zhang C,Cui Y,Li J,Zhang T,Chen W,Wang Ddoi
10.1038/s41598-017-11808-7subject
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2017-09-12 00:00:00pages
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