August 2021
Volume 62, Issue 11
Open Access
ARVO Imaging in the Eye Conference Abstract  |   August 2021
Multimodality, High-Resolution Tracking of Subretinal Injection of ARPE19 Cells Labeled with Chain-like Gold Nanoparticle Clusters in Rabbits
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Yannis Mantas Paulus
    Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  • Van Phuc Nguyen
    Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  • Wen Fan
    Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  • Tianye Zhu
    Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  • Wei Qian
    IMRA Inc, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  • Bing Liu
    IMRA Inc, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  • Wei Zhang
    Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  • Xueding Wang
    Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships   Yannis Paulus, None; Van Phuc Nguyen, None; Wen Fan, None; Tianye Zhu, None; Wei Qian, IMRA Inc (E); Bing Liu, IMRA Inc (E); Wei Zhang, None; Xueding Wang, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science August 2021, Vol.62, 32. doi:
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      Yannis Mantas Paulus, Van Phuc Nguyen, Wen Fan, Tianye Zhu, Wei Qian, Bing Liu, Wei Zhang, Xueding Wang; Multimodality, High-Resolution Tracking of Subretinal Injection of ARPE19 Cells Labeled with Chain-like Gold Nanoparticle Clusters in Rabbits. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2021;62(11):32.

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Abstract

Purpose : Stem cell therapy offers a promising method for the treatment of currently incurable diseases such as geographic atrophy in macular degeneration. However, a major challenge of stem cell therapy is to evaluate the treatment outcome and to track the distribution of cells after transplantation. In this study, an advanced non-invasive photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system is developed to monitor progenitor cells in vivo.

Methods : A high resolution multimodal PAM and OCT imaging system is developed for tracking transplanted cells in living rabbit retina. Ultrapure functionalized chain-like gold nanoparticle (CGNP) clusters were synthesized and used to label human retinal pigment epithelial (ARPE-19) cells prior to injecting them in the subretinal space in rabbits (n=12) having localized RPE damage via photocoagulation lesions. The biodistribution and migration of the transplanted cells were monitored using multimodal imaging, including color fundus photography, ICGA, PAM, and OCT for up to 90 days.

Results : PAM images were obtained at two different optical wavelengths of 578 nm to visualize vasculature and 650 nm to visualize ARPE-19 cells and were overlaid on the same image plane and on the OCT images. Transplanted ARPE-19 cells injected into the subretinal space can be selectively identified by PAM at 650nm with high contrast. The laser energy used to perform PAM is 80 nJ, or half of the ANSI safety limit. Co-registration of B-scan OCT with PAM provides information on the anatomic layers in which the ARPE-19 cells are found, which is in the RPE and adjacent layers. ARPE-19 cells localize focally to the grid pattern photocoagulation lesion locations and persist for up to 90 days after injection. Bare CGNP clusters injected into control eyes do not selectively localize and are rapidly cleared after 14 days. Histology and immunohistochemistry confirm the ARPE-19 cells localize to the regions demonstrated on OCT and PAM at 650nm.

Conclusions : Multimodal PAM and OCT imaging using CGNP clusters can allow for an imaging and nanoparticle system could be used for labeling and tracking of cell-based regenerative therapies in the retina.

This is a 2021 Imaging in the Eye Conference abstract.

 

OCT (left) and 650 nm PAM overlay in green on OCT (right) on visualization of CGNP ARPE-19 cells in rabbit eyes longitudinally.

OCT (left) and 650 nm PAM overlay in green on OCT (right) on visualization of CGNP ARPE-19 cells in rabbit eyes longitudinally.

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