Characterization in humans of 18F-MNI-444, a PET radiotracer for brain adenosine 2A receptors.
Olivier Barret, Jonas Hannestad, Christine Vala, David Alagille, Adriana Tavares, Marc Laruelle, Danna Jennings, Ken Marek, David Russell, John Seibyl, Gilles Tamagnan
Index: J. Nucl. Med. 56(4) , 586-91, (2015)
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Abstract
PET with selective adenosine 2A receptor (A2A) radiotracers can be used to study a variety of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders in vivo and to support drug-discovery studies targeting A2A. The aim of this study was to describe the first in vivo evaluation of (18)F-MNI-444, a novel PET radiotracer for imaging A2A, in healthy human subjects.Ten healthy human volunteers were enrolled in this study; 6 completed the brain PET studies and 4 participated in the whole-body PET studies. Arterial blood was collected for invasive kinetic modeling of the brain PET data. Noninvasive methods of data quantification were also explored. Test-retest reproducibility was evaluated in 5 subjects. Radiotracer distribution and dosimetry was determined using serial whole-body PET images acquired over 6 h post-radiotracer injection. Urine samples were collected to calculate urinary excretion.After intravenous bolus injection, (18)F-MNI-444 rapidly entered the brain and displayed a distribution consistent with known A2A densities in the brain. Binding potentials ranging from 2.6 to 4.9 were measured in A2A-rich regions, with an average test-retest variability of less than 10%. The estimated whole-body radiation effective dose was approximately 0.023 mSv/MBq.(18)F-MNI-444 is a useful PET radiotracer for imaging A2A in the human brain. The superior in vivo brain kinetic properties of (18)F-MNI-444, compared with previously developed A2A radiotracers, provide the opportunity to foster global use of in vivo A2A PET imaging in neuroscience research.© 2015 by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Inc.
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