Synthesis and biological evaluation of trans-3-phenyl-1-indanamines as potential norepinephrine transporter imaging agents.

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Abstract

  • The development of radioligands suitable for studying the central nervous system (CNS) norepinephrine transporter (NET) in vivo will provide important new tools for examining the pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy of a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders including major depression. Towards this end, a series of trans-3-phenyl-1-indanamine derivatives were prepared and evaluated in vitro. The biological properties of the most promising compound, [(11)C]3-BrPA, were investigated in rat biodistribution and nonhuman primate PET studies. Despite high in vitro affinity for the human NET, the uptake of [(11)C]3-BrPA in the brain and the heart was not displaceable with pharmacological doses of NET antagonists.

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  • Animals, Brain, Dopamine, Humans, Indans, Ligands, Macaca mulatta, Male, Metabolic Clearance Rate, Norepinephrine, Protein Binding, Radiopharmaceuticals, Rats, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Serotonin, Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins, Species Specificity, Tomography, Emission-Computed

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  • McConathy J; Owens MJ; Kilts CD; Malveaux EJ; Votaw JR; Nemeroff CB; Goodman MM

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  • 593

    • End Page

  • 605

    • Volume

  • 32

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  • 6