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SUBMITTER: Denora N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4060941 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Denora Nunzio N Margiotta Nicola N Laquintana Valentino V Lopedota Angela A Cutrignelli Annalisa A Losacco Maurizio M Franco Massimo M Natile Giovanni G
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20140330 6
The 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO) is overexpressed in many types of cancers and is also abundant in activated microglial cells occurring in inflammatory neurodegenerative diseases. Thus, TSPO has become an extremely attractive subcellular target not only for imaging disease states overexpressing this protein, but also for a selective mitochondrial drug delivery. In this work we report the synthesis, the characterization, and the in vitro evaluation of a new TSPO-selective ligand, 2-(8-(2-(b ...[more]