Serotonin 2A receptor agonist binding in the human brain with [(11)C]Cimbi-36: Test-retest reproducibility and head-to-head comparison with the antagonist [(18)F]altanserin

Anders Ettrup; Claus Svarer; Brenda McMahon; Sofi da Cunha-Bang; Szabolcs Lehel; Kirsten Møller; Agnete Dyssegaard; Melanie Ganz; Vincent Beliveau; Louise Møller Jørgensen; Nic Gillings; Gitte Moos Knudsen

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.001

Serotonin 2A receptor agonist binding in the human brain with [(11)C]Cimbi-36: Test-retest reproducibility and head-to-head comparison with the antagonist [(18)F]altanserin

Anders Ettrup, Claus Svarer, Brenda McMahon, Sofi da Cunha-Bang, Szabolcs Lehel, Kirsten Møller, Agnete Dyssegaard, Melanie Ganz, Vincent Beliveau, Louise Møller Jørgensen, Nic Gillings, Gitte Moos Knudsen

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INTRODUCTION: [(11)C]Cimbi-36 is a recently developed serotonin 2A (5-HT2A) receptor agonist positron emission tomography (PET) radioligand that has been successfully applied for human neuroimaging. Here, we investigate the test-retest variability of cerebral [(11)C]Cimbi-36 PET and compare [(11)C]Cimbi-36 and the 5-HT2A receptor antagonist [(18)F]altanserin.

METHODS: Sixteen healthy volunteers (mean age 23.9±6.4years, 6 males) were scanned twice with a high resolution research tomography PET scanner. All subjects were scanned after a bolus of [(11)C]Cimbi-36; eight were scanned twice to determine test-retest variability in [(11)C]Cimbi-36 binding measures, and another eight were scanned after a bolus plus constant infusion with [(18)F]altanserin. Regional differences in the brain distribution of [(11)C]Cimbi-36 and [(18)F]altanserin were assessed with a correlation of regional binding measures and with voxel-based analysis.

RESULTS: Test-retest variability of [(11)C]Cimbi-36 non-displaceable binding potential (BPND) was consistently <5% in high-binding regions and lower for reference tissue models as compared to a 2-tissue compartment model. We found a highly significant correlation between regional BPNDs measured with [(11)C]Cimbi-36 and [(18)F]altanserin (mean Pearson's r: 0.95±0.04) suggesting similar cortical binding of the radioligands. Relatively higher binding with [(11)C]Cimbi-36 as compared to [(18)F]altanserin was found in the choroid plexus and hippocampus in the human brain.

CONCLUSIONS: Excellent test-retest reproducibility highlights the potential of [(11)C]Cimbi-36 for PET imaging of 5-HT2A receptor agonist binding in vivo. Our data suggest that Cimbi-36 and altanserin both bind to 5-HT2A receptors, but in regions with high 5-HT2C receptor density, choroid plexus and hippocampus, the [(11)C]Cimbi-36 binding likely represents binding to both 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptors.

Original language	English
Journal	NeuroImage
Volume	130
Pages (from-to)	167-74
Number of pages	8
ISSN	1053-8119
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.001
Publication status	Published - 15 Apr 2016

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Ettrup, A., Svarer, C., McMahon, B., da Cunha-Bang, S., Lehel, S., Møller, K., Dyssegaard, A., Ganz, M., Beliveau, V., Jørgensen, L. M., Gillings, N., & Knudsen, G. M. (2016). Serotonin 2A receptor agonist binding in the human brain with [(11)C]Cimbi-36: Test-retest reproducibility and head-to-head comparison with the antagonist [(18)F]altanserin. NeuroImage, 130, 167-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.001

Ettrup, A, Svarer, C, McMahon, B, da Cunha-Bang, S , Lehel, S , Møller, K, Dyssegaard, A, Ganz, M, Beliveau, V, Jørgensen, LM , Gillings, N & Knudsen, GM 2016, 'Serotonin 2A receptor agonist binding in the human brain with [(11)C]Cimbi-36: Test-retest reproducibility and head-to-head comparison with the antagonist [(18)F]altanserin', NeuroImage, vol. 130, pp. 167-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.001

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Serotonin 2A receptor agonist binding in the human brain with [(11)C]Cimbi-36: Test-retest reproducibility and head-to-head comparison with the antagonist [(18)F]altanserin

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