Radiosynthesis and Evaluation of [11C-Carbonyl]-Labeled Carbamates as Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Radiotracers for Positron Emission Tomography

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• 作者：Alan A. Wilson ; Justin W. Hicks ; Oleg Sadovski ; Jun Parkes ; Junchao Tong ; Sylvain Houle ; Christopher J. Fowler ; Neil Vasdev
• 刊名：Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：January 10, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：56
• 期：1
• 页码：201-209
• 全文大小：379K
• 年卷期：v.56,no.1(January 10, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-4804

文摘

Fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) plays a key role in regulating the tone of the endocannabinoid system. Radiotracers are required to image and quantify FAAH activity in vivo. We have synthesized a series of potent FAAH inhibitors encompassing two classes of N-alkyl-O-arylcarbamates and radiolabeled eight of them with carbon-11. The [¹¹C-carbonyl]-radiotracers were evaluated in vitro and ex vivo in rats as potential FAAH imaging agents for positron emission tomography (PET). Both sets of [¹¹C]O-arylcarbamates showed good to excellent brain penetration and an appropriate regional distribution. Pretreatments with a FAAH inhibitor demonstrated that 80鈥?5% of brain uptake of radioactivity constituted binding of the radiotracers to FAAH. Brain extraction measurements showed that binding to FAAH was irreversible and kinetically different for the two classes of carbamates. These promising results are discussed in terms of the requirements of a suitable radiotracer for the in vivo imaging of FAAH using PET.