Discrimination between normal and cancerous cells by gap-FRAP: feasibility in endoscopy

Jean-Rene Stines; Dominique Dumas; Walter Blondel; Jacques Didelon; Francois Guillemin

doi:10.1117/12.545495

1 September 2004 Discrimination between normal and cancerous cells by gap-FRAP: feasibility in endoscopy

Jean-Rene Stines, Dominique Dumas, Walter Blondel, Jacques Didelon, Francois Guillemin

Proceedings Volume 5459, Optical Sensing; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.545495
Event: Photonics Europe, 2004, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

Several reports show that cancerous cells are linked to early decrease in gap-junction number and functionality diminution. This precancerous phenomenon may be accessed by different fluorescence techniques and particularly by gap-FRAP technique (gap-junction fluorescence recovery after photobleaching). Measurements at cell or tissue scale allowed by this method lead to consider its potential interest in endoscopic technics applied to early cancer detection. Experiments were performed on HT-29 (human colon adenocarcinoma), MCF-7 (human breast cancer cell) and CCD-1137Sk (human Fibroblasts) in the presence of 5.6CFDA. Dye was bleached by laser light (488nm) during few seconds depending on the region of interest (one or fewer cells). Fluorescence recovery kinetic after photobleaching was measured by imaging and spectral analysis with a confocal laser scanning microscope as reference technique. Then, a microspectrofluorimeter was used in order to evaluate the faisability on a fiber optics based system offering measurement condition close to the tissue clinical endoscopy conditions.Preliminary results obtained on the various cells lines show significant differences in kinetics for normal and cancerous cells. We have shown that CCD-1137Sk line cells possess functional communicating junctions, contrary to the carcinogenic HT-29 and MCF-7 cells. Results obtained by microspectrofluorimetry are related to confocal microscopes ones confirming the feasibility in endoscopy.

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Jean-Rene Stines, Dominique Dumas, Walter Blondel, Jacques Didelon, and Francois Guillemin "Discrimination between normal and cancerous cells by gap-FRAP: feasibility in endoscopy", Proc. SPIE 5459, Optical Sensing, (1 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.545495

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Luminescence

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Endoscopy

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