Student or educator? Sign up with your school email and get 6 months of Pro free.
Cited by 520

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 25 of the 25 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Hyperpolarized 13C Lactate, Pyruvate, and Alanine: Noninvasive Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer Detection and Grading

Open access
Albers, Mark J., Bok, Robert, Chen, Albert P., Cunningham, Charles H., Zierhut, Matt L., Zhang, Vickie Yi, Kohler, Susan J., Tropp, James, Hurd, Ralph E., Yen, Yi-Fen, Nelson, Sarah J., Vigneron, Daniel B., Kurhanewicz, John·2008·Cancer Research

Abstract

An extraordinary new technique using hyperpolarized 13C-labeled pyruvate and taking advantage of increased glycolysis in cancer has the potential to improve the way magnetic resonance imaging is used for detection and characterization of prostate cancer. The aim of this study was to quantify, for the first time, differences in hyperpolarized [1-13C] pyruvate and its metabolic products between the various histologic grades of prostate cancer using the transgenic adenocarcinoma of mouse prostate (TRAMP) model. Fast spectroscopic imaging techniques were used to image lactate, alanine, and total hyperpolarized carbon (THC = lactate + pyruvate + alanine) from the entire abdomen of normal mice and TRAMP mice with low- and high-grade prostate tumors in 14 s. Within 1 week, the mice were dissected and the tumors were histologically analyzed. Hyperpolarized lactate SNR levels significantly increased (P < 0.05) with cancer development and progression (41 ± 11, 74 ± 17, and 154 ± 24 in normal prostates, low-grade primary tumors, and high-grade primary tumors, respectively) and had a correlation coefficient of 0.95 with the histologic grade. In addition, there was minimal overlap in the lactate levels between the three groups with only one of the seven normal prostates overlapping with the low-grade primary tumors. The amount of THC, a possible measure of substrate uptake, and hyperpolarized alanine also increased with tumor grade but showed more overlap between the groups. In summary, elevated hyperpolarized lactate and potentially THC and alanine are noninvasive biomarkers of prostate cancer presence and histologic grade that could be used in future three-dimensional 13C spectroscopic imaging studies of prostate cancer patients. [Cancer Res 2008;68(20):8607–15]

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-0749

Cites

25 of 25 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cites

Show all 25 references

Cited by

See all 520

Metadata

Authors
Albers, M. J., Bok, R., Chen, A. P., Cunningham, C. H., Zierhut, M. L., Zhang, V. Y., Kohler, S. J., Tropp, J., Hurd, R. E., Yen, Y.-F., Nelson, S. J., Vigneron, D. B., & Kurhanewicz, J.
Venue
Cancer Research
Published
2008-10-15
Volume
68
Issue
20
Pages
8607-8615
ISSN
  • 0008-5472 (ISSN-L)
  • 1538-7445
OpenAlex
W1986007087
Cited by
520
References
25
FWCI
11.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
bronze

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Hyperpolarized 13C Lactate, Pyruvate, and Alanine: Noninvasive Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer Detection and Grading. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-0749
The paper
Albers, M. J., Bok, R., Chen, A. P., Cunningham, C. H., Zierhut, M. L., Zhang, V. Y., Kohler, S. J., Tropp, J., Hurd, R. E., Yen, Y.-F., Nelson, S. J., Vigneron, D. B., & Kurhanewicz, J. (2008). Hyperpolarized 13C Lactate, Pyruvate, and Alanine: Noninvasive Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer Detection and Grading. Cancer Research. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-0749

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.