Multidentate 18F-Polypegylated Styrylpyridines As Imaging Agents for Aβ Plaques in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA)
摘要:
beta-Amyloid plaques (A beta plaques) in the brain are associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). Imaging agents that could target the A beta plaques in the living human brain would be potentially valuable as biomarkers in patients with CAA. A new series of F-18 styrylpyridine derivatives with high molecular weights for selectively targeting A beta plaques in the blood vessels of the brain but excluded from the brain parenchyma is reported. The styrylpyridine derivatives, 8a-c, display high binding affinities and specificity to A beta plaques (K-i = 2.87, 3.24, and 7.71 nM, respectively). In vitro autoradiography of [F-18]8a shows labeling of beta-amyloid plaques associated with blood vessel walls in human brain sections of subjects with CAA and also in the tissue of AD brain sections. The results suggest that [F-18]8a may be a useful PET imaging agent for selectively detecting A beta plaques associated with cerebral vessels in the living human brain.
Multidentate 18F-Polypegylated Styrylpyridines As Imaging Agents for Aβ Plaques in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA)
摘要:
beta-Amyloid plaques (A beta plaques) in the brain are associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). Imaging agents that could target the A beta plaques in the living human brain would be potentially valuable as biomarkers in patients with CAA. A new series of F-18 styrylpyridine derivatives with high molecular weights for selectively targeting A beta plaques in the blood vessels of the brain but excluded from the brain parenchyma is reported. The styrylpyridine derivatives, 8a-c, display high binding affinities and specificity to A beta plaques (K-i = 2.87, 3.24, and 7.71 nM, respectively). In vitro autoradiography of [F-18]8a shows labeling of beta-amyloid plaques associated with blood vessel walls in human brain sections of subjects with CAA and also in the tissue of AD brain sections. The results suggest that [F-18]8a may be a useful PET imaging agent for selectively detecting A beta plaques associated with cerebral vessels in the living human brain.
Development of chimeric receptor activator of nuclear factor‐kappa B with glutathione S‐transferase in the extracellular domain: Artificial switch in a membrane receptor
three types of chimeric receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B (RANK) with the glutathione S-transferase (GST) protein in the extracellular domain, and stimulated them using newly synthesized chemical trimerizers with three glutathiones. Although this stimulation did not activate these proteins, we unexpectedly found that the chimera named RANK-GST-SC, in which GST replaced a major part of the
isolated methicillin-resistantStaphylococcusaureus (MRSA) with MIC values ranging from 1 to 2 μg/mL, while CL was inactive to the tested MRSA strains. In addition, these conjugates exhibited rapid bactericidal properties and low toxicity, and did not readily induced bacterial resistance, obviously outperforming the parent drug CL. In a mouse model infected with a clinically isolated MRSA strain, compound