Abstract
Four (99m)Tc-labeled dibenzylideneacetone derivatives and corresponding rhenium complexes were successfully synthesized and biologically evaluated as potential imaging probes for Aβ plaques using SPECT. All rhenium complexes (5a-d) showed affinity for Aβ(1-42) aggregates (Ki = 13.6-120.9 nM), and selectively stained the Aβ plaques on brain sections of transgenic mice. Biodistribution in normal mice revealed that [(99m)Tc]5a-d exhibited moderate initial uptake (0.31%-0.49% ID/g at 2 min) and reasonable brain washout at 60 min post-injection. Although additional optimizations are still needed to facilitate it's penetration through BBB, the present results indicate that [(99m)Tc]5a may be a potential SPECT probe for imaging Aβ plaques in Alzheimer's brains.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 90-8 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry |
Volume | 64 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2013 |
Keywords
- Amyloid beta-Peptides/chemistry
- Animals
- Butanones/chemistry
- Disease Models, Animal
- Fluorescent Dyes/chemical synthesis
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred ICR
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Imaging
- Molecular Structure
- Organometallic Compounds/chemical synthesis
- Peptide Fragments/chemistry
- Plaque, Amyloid/chemistry
- Rhenium/chemistry
- Staining and Labeling
- Technetium/chemistry
- Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon