(99m)Tc-labeled dibenzylideneacetone derivatives as potential SPECT probes for in vivo imaging of β-amyloid plaque

Yanping Yang, Mengchao Cui, Bing Jin, Xuedan Wang, Zijing Li, Pingrong Yu, Jianhua Jia, Hualong Fu, Hongmei Jia, Boli Liu

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)90-8
Number of pages9
JournalEuropean Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Volume64
DOIs
StatePublished - 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

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