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PET measurement of cyclooxygenase-2 using a novel radioligand: upregulation in primate neuroinflammation and first-in-human study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), which is rapidly upregulated by inflammation, is a key enzyme catalyzing the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of several inflammatory prostanoids. Successful positron emission tomography (PET) radioligand imaging of COX-2 in vivo could be a potentially powerful tool for assessing inflammatory response in the brain and periphery. To date, however, the development of PET radioligands for COX-2 has had limited success. METHODS:The novel PET tracer [11C]MC1 was used to examine COX-2 expression [1] in the brains of four rhesus macaques at baseline and after injection of the inflammogen lipopolysaccharide (LPS) into the right putamen, and [2] in the joints of two human participants with rheumatoid arthritis and two healthy individuals. In the primate study, two monkeys had one LPS injection, and two monkeys had a second injection 33 and 44 days, respectively, after the first LPS injection. As a comparator, COX-1 expression was measured using [11C]PS13. RESULTS:COX-2 binding, expressed as the ratio of specific to nondisplaceable uptake (BPND) of [11C]MC1, increased on day 1 post-LPS injection; no such increase in COX-1 expression, measured using [11C]PS13, was observed. The day after the second LPS injection, a brain lesion (~?0.5 cm in diameter) with high COX-2 density and high BPND (1.8) was observed. Postmortem brain analysis at the gene transcript or protein level confirmed in vivo PET results. An incidental finding in an unrelated monkey found a line of COX-2 positivity along an incision in skull muscle, demonstrating that [11C]MC1 can localize inflammation peripheral to the brain. In patients with rheumatoid arthritis, [11C]MC1 successfully imaged upregulated COX-2 in the arthritic hand and shoulder and apparently in the brain. Uptake was blocked by celecoxib, a COX-2 preferential inhibitor. CONCLUSIONS:Taken together, these results indicate that [11C]MC1 can image and quantify COX-2 upregulation in both monkey brain after LPS-induced neuroinflammation and in human peripheral tissue with inflammation. TRIAL REGISTRATION:ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03912428. Registered April 11, 2019.

SUBMITTER: Shrestha S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7195739 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

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PET measurement of cyclooxygenase-2 using a novel radioligand: upregulation in primate neuroinflammation and first-in-human study.

Shrestha Stal S Kim Min-Jeong MJ Eldridge Mark M Lehmann Michael L ML Frankland Michael M Liow Jeih-San JS Yu Zu-Xi ZX Cortes-Salva Michelle M Telu Sanjay S Henter Ioline D ID Gallagher Evan E Lee Jae-Hoon JH Fredericks J Megan JM Poffenberger Chelsie C Tye George G Ruiz-Perdomo Yanira Y Anaya Fernanda Juarez FJ Montero Santamaria Jose A JA Gladding Robert L RL Zoghbi Sami S SS Fujita Masahiro M Katz James D JD Pike Victor W VW Innis Robert B RB

Journal of neuroinflammation 20200502 1

<h4>Background</h4>Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), which is rapidly upregulated by inflammation, is a key enzyme catalyzing the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of several inflammatory prostanoids. Successful positron emission tomography (PET) radioligand imaging of COX-2 in vivo could be a potentially powerful tool for assessing inflammatory response in the brain and periphery. To date, however, the development of PET radioligands for COX-2 has had limited success.<h4>Methods</h4>The novel PET tra ...[more]

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