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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 139, Issue 36, Pages 12550-12558Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05937
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- DOE Integrated Research Training Program of Excellence in Radiochemistry [DE-SC0002032]
- NIH [R01GM114588]
- Alzheimer's Association (NIRG) [12-259199]
- Washington University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (NIH) [P50-AG05681]
- McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology at Washington University School of Medicine
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Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agents that detect amyloid plaques containing amyloid beta (All) 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 C-11 (20.4 min) and F-18(109.8 mm) may limit the widespread use of these imaging agents. Therefore, we have begun to evaluate novel AD diagnostic agents that can be radiolabeled with Cu-64, a radionuclide with a half-life of 12.7 h, ideal for PET imaging. Described herein are a series of bifunctional chelators (BFCs), L-1-L-5, that were designed to tightly bind Cu-64 and shown to interact with A beta 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.
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