A bis-boron boramino acid PET tracer for brain tumor diagnosis

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PURPOSE: Boramino acids are a class of amino acid biomimics that replace the carboxylate group with trifluoroborate and can achieve the 18F-labeled positron emission tomography (PET) and boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) with identical chemical structure.

METHODS: This study reports a trifluoroborate-derived boronophenylalanine (BBPA), a derived boronophenylalanine (BPA) for BNCT, as a promising PET tracer for tumor imaging.

RESULTS: Competition inhibition assays in cancer cells suggested the cell accumulation of [18F]BBPA is through large neutral amino acid transporter type-1 (LAT-1). Of note, [18F]BBPA is a pan-cancer probe that shows notable tumor uptake in B16-F10 tumor-bearing mice. In the patients with gliomas and metastatic brain tumors, [18F]BBPA-PET shows good tumor uptake and notable tumor-to-normal brain ratio (T/N ratio, 18.7 ± 5.5, n = 11), higher than common amino acid PET tracers. The [18F]BBPA-PET quantitative parameters exhibited no difference in diverse contrast-enhanced status (P = 0.115-0.687) suggesting the [18F]BBPA uptake was independent from MRI contrast-enhancement.

CONCLUSION: This study outlines a clinical trial with [18F]BBPA to achieve higher tumor-specific accumulation for PET, provides a potential technique for brain tumor diagnosis, and might facilitate the BNCT of brain tumors.

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ErratumIn: Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2024 Mar 22;:. - PMID 38517519

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:51

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European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging - 51(2024), 6 vom: 08. Apr., Seite 1703-1712

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Zhu [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Junyi [VerfasserIn]
Kong, Ziren [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Yixin [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Mengxin [VerfasserIn]
Mu, Bo-Shuai [VerfasserIn]
Li, Nan [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Wenbin [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Zhi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Zhibo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Boramino acid
Boron Compounds
Brain tumor
Journal Article
Large Neutral Amino Acid-Transporter 1
Positron emission tomography
Radioactive Tracers
Radiopharmaceuticals

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Date Completed 24.04.2024

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

ErratumIn: Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2024 Mar 22;:. - PMID 38517519

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1007/s00259-024-06600-5

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