TY - JOUR AU - Kroll, Tina AU - Matusch, Andreas AU - Celik, A. Avdo AU - Wedekind, Franziska AU - Weißhaupt, Angela AU - Beer, Simone AU - Bauer, Andreas TI - [18F]Altanserin and small animal PET: Impact of multidrug efflux transporters on ligand brain uptake and subsequent quantification of 5-HT2A receptor densities in the rat brain JO - Nuclear medicine and biology VL - 41 IS - 1 SN - 1872-9614 CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] PB - Elsevier Science M1 - FZJ-2013-04138 SP - 1-9 PY - 2014 AB - The selective 5-hydroxytryptamine type 2a receptor (5-HT2AR) radiotracer [18F]altanserin is a promising ligand for in vivo brain imaging in rodents. However, [18F]altanserin is a substrate of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) in rats. Its applicability might therefore be constrained by both a differential expression of P-gp under pathological conditions, e.g. epilepsy, and its relatively low cerebral uptake. The aim of the present study was therefore twofold: (i) to investigate whether inhibition of multidrug transporters (MDT) is suitable to enhance the cerebral uptake of [18F]altanserin in vivo and (ii) to test different pharmacokinetic, particularly reference tissue-based models for exact quantification of 5-HT2AR densities in the rat brain. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000328009300001 DO - DOI:10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2013.09.001 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/137828 ER -