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PET Imaging of α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: A comparative study of [18F]ASEM and [18F]DBT-10 in non-human primates, and further evaluation of [18F]ASEM in humans

Hillmer, A. T.; Li, S.; Zheng, M.-Q.; Scheunemann, M.; Lin, S.-F.; Nabulsi, N.; Holden, D.; Pracitto, R.; Labaree, D.; Ropchan, J.; Teodoro, R.; Deuther-Conrad, W.; Esterlis, I.; Cosgrove, K. P.; Carson, R. E.; Brust, P.; Huang, Y.

The α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) is implicated in many neuropsychiatric disorders, making it an important target for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. The first aim of this work was to compare two PET radioligands specific to α7 nAChRs, [18F]ASEM (3-(1,4-diazabicyclo[3.2.2]nonan-4-yl)-6-([18F]fluorodibenzo[b,d]thiophene 5,5-dioxide) and [18F]DBT-10 (7-(1,4-diazabicyclo[3.2.2]nonan-4-yl)-2-([18F]fluorodibenzo[b,d]thiophene 5,5-dioxide), in nonhuman primates. The second aim was to further assess the quantification and test-retest variability of [18F]ASEM in humans.

Keywords: Nicotine; Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor; Alpha7; PET; ASEM

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