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- The study aimed to assess a new PET radioligand, [(11)C]MP-10, which targets the PDE10A enzyme in the brain.
- The research involved labeling MP-10 with carbon-11 and conducting PET imaging in pig and baboon brains, revealing that [(11)C]MP-10 rapidly penetrated the brain in pigs and had a slower uptake in nonhuman primates.
- The findings confirmed that [(11)C]MP-10 demonstrated selectivity and suitability for quantifying PDE10A in vivo, with consistent regional brain binding patterns aligned with existing knowledge about PDE10A distribution.
Article Abstract
Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate a newly reported positron emission tomography (PET) radioligand [(11)C]MP-10, a potent and selective inhibitor of the central phosphodiesterase 10A enzyme (PDE10A) in vivo, using PET.
Methods: A procedure was developed for labeling MP-10 with carbon-11. [(11)C]MP-10 was evaluated in vivo both in the pig and baboon brain.
Results: Alkylation of the corresponding desmethyl compound with [(11)C]methyl iodide produced [(11)C]MP-10 with good radiochemical yield and specific activity. PET studies in the pig showed that [(11)C]MP-10 rapidly entered the brain reaching peak tissue concentration at 1-2 min postadministration, followed by washout from the tissue. Administration of a selective PDE10A inhibitor reduced the binding in all brain regions to the levels of the cerebellum, demonstrating the saturability and selectivity of [(11)C]MP-10 binding. In the nonhuman primate, the brain tissue kinetics of [(11)C]MP-10 were slower, reaching peak tissue concentrations at 30-60 min postadministration. In both species, the observed rank order of regional brain signal was striatum>diencephalon>cortical regions=cerebellum, consistent with the known distribution and concentration of PDE10A. [(11)C]MP-10 brain kinetics were well described by a two-tissue compartment model, and estimates of total volume of distribution (V(T)) were obtained. Blocking studies with unlabeled MP-10 revealed the suitability of the cerebellum as a reference tissue and enabled the estimation of regional binding potential (BP(ND)) as the outcome measure of specific binding. Quantification of [(11)C]MP-10 binding using the simplified reference tissue model with cerebellar input function produced BP(ND) estimates consistent with those obtained by the two-tissue compartment model.
Conclusion: We demonstrated that [(11)C]MP-10 possesses good characteristics for the in vivo quantification of the PDE10A in the brain by PET.
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