Kinetic Modeling of 11C-SB207145 Binding to 5-HT4 Receptors in the Human Brain in Vivo
Kinetic Modeling of 11C-SB207145 Binding to 5-HT4 Receptors in the Human Brain In Vivo Lisbeth Marner1,2, Nic Gillings2,3, Robert A. Comley4, William F.C. Baare´2,5, Eugenii A. Rabiner4, Alan A. Wilson6, Sylvain Houle6, Steen G. Hasselbalch1,2, Claus Svarer1,2, Roger N. Gunn4,7, Marc Laruelle4,8, and Gitte M. Knudsen1,2 1Neurobiology Research Unit, Neuroscience Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3PET and Cyclotron Unit, Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; 4Clinical Imaging Centre, GlaxoSmithKline, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom; 5Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; 6Vivian M. Rakoff PET Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 7Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; and 8Division of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom The serotonin 4 receptor (5-HT4 receptor) is known to be involved Key Words: positron emission tomography (PET); test–retest; in learning and memory. We evaluated for the first time the quan- blocking; kinetic modeling; quantification 11 tification of a novel 5-HT4 receptor radioligand, C-SB207145, J Nucl Med 2009; 50:900–908 for in vivo brain imaging with PET in humans. Methods: For eval- DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.058552 uation of reproducibility, 6 subjects were scanned twice with 11C-SB207145 on the same day. A further 2 subjects were scanned before and after blocking with the selective 5-HT4 re- ceptor inverse agonist piboserod (SB207266).
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