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Evaluation of 64Cu-Based Radiopharmaceuticals that Target Aβ Peptide Aggregates as Diagnostic Tools for Alzheimer's Disease.

Abstract
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents that detect amyloid plaques containing amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide aggregates in the brain of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients have been successfully developed and recently approved by the FDA for clinical use. However, the short half-lives of the currently used radionuclides 11C (20.4 min) and 18F (109.8 min) may limit the widespread use of these imaging agents. Therefore, we have begun to evaluate novel AD diagnostic agents that can be radiolabeled with 64Cu, a radionuclide with a half-life of 12.7 h, ideal for PET imaging. Described herein are a series of bifunctional chelators (BFCs), L1-L5, that were designed to tightly bind 64Cu and shown to interact with Aβ aggregates both in vitro and in transgenic AD mouse brain sections. Importantly, biodistribution studies show that these compounds exhibit promising brain uptake and rapid clearance in wild-type mice, and initial microPET imaging studies of transgenic AD mice suggest that these compounds could serve as lead compounds for the development of improved diagnostic agents for AD.
AuthorsNilantha Bandara, Anuj K Sharma, Stephanie Krieger, Jason W Schultz, Byung Hee Han, Buck E Rogers, Liviu M Mirica
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society (J Am Chem Soc) Vol. 139 Issue 36 Pg. 12550-12558 (09 13 2017) ISSN: 1520-5126 [Electronic] United States
PMID28823165 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Amyloid beta-Peptides
  • Copper Radioisotopes
  • Copper-64
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
Topics
  • Alzheimer Disease (diagnosis, diagnostic imaging)
  • Amyloid beta-Peptides (chemistry)
  • Animals
  • Autoradiography
  • Copper Radioisotopes (chemistry, pharmacokinetics)
  • Half-Life
  • Humans
  • Mice
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Multimodal Imaging
  • Radiopharmaceuticals (chemistry, pharmacokinetics)
  • Spectrometry, Fluorescence
  • Tissue Distribution

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