Blood–Brain Barrier Penetration of Zolmitriptan—Modelling of Positron Emission Tomography Data

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mats Bergström ◽  
Roger Yates ◽  
Anders Wall ◽  
Matts Kågedal ◽  
Stina Syvänen ◽  
...  
1996 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Zünkeler ◽  
Richard E. Carson ◽  
Jeffrey Olson ◽  
Ronald G. Blasberg ◽  
Mary Girton ◽  
...  

✓ Hyperosmolar blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption remains controversial as an adjuvant therapy to increase delivery of water-soluble compounds to extracellular space in the brain in patients with malignant brain tumors. To understand the physiological effects of BBB disruption more clearly, the authors used positron emission tomography (PET) to study the time course of BBB permeability in response to the potassium analog rubidium-82 (82Rb, halflife 75 seconds) following BBB disruption in anesthetized adult baboons. Mannitol (25%) was injected into the carotid artery and PET scans were performed before and serially at 8- to 15-minute intervals after BBB disruption. The mean influx constant (K1), a measure of permeability-surface area product, in ipsilateral, mannitol-perfused mixed gray- and white-matter brain regions was 4.9 ± 2.4 µl/min/ml (± standard deviation) at baseline and increased more than 100% (ΔK1 = 9.4 ± 5.1 µl/min/ml, 18 baboons) in brain perfused by mannitol. The effect of BBB disruption on K1 correlated directly with the total amount of mannitol administered (p < 0.005). Vascular permeability returned to baseline with a halftime of 24.0 ± 14.3 minutes. The mean brain plasma volume rose by 0.57 ± 0.34 ml/100 ml in ipsilateral perfused brain following BBB disruption. This work provides a basis for the in vivo study of permeability changes induced by BBB disruption in human brain and brain tumors.


2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 743-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bauer ◽  
Rudolf Karch ◽  
Markus Zeitlinger ◽  
Cécile Philippe ◽  
Kerstin Römermann ◽  
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As P-glycoprotein (Pgp) inhibition at the blood–brain barrier (BBB) after administration of a single dose of tariquidar is transient, we performed positron emission tomography (PET) scans with the Pgp substrate ( R)-[11C]verapamil in five healthy volunteers during continuous intravenous tariquidar infusion. Total distribution volume ( VT) of ( R)-[11C]verapamil in whole-brain gray matter increased by 273 ± 78% relative to baseline scans without tariquidar, which was higher than previously reported VT increases. During tariquidar infusion whole-brain VT was comparable to VT in the pituitary gland, a region not protected by the BBB, which suggested that we were approaching complete Pgp inhibition at the human BBB.


2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 48-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. H. Hendrikse ◽  
J. Bart ◽  
E.G.E. de Vries ◽  
H.J.M. Groen ◽  
W.T.A. van der Graaf ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 2185-2195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Auvity ◽  
Hélène Chapy ◽  
Sébastien Goutal ◽  
Fabien Caillé ◽  
Benoit Hosten ◽  
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Diphenhydramine, a sedative histamine H1-receptor (H1R) antagonist, was evaluated as a probe to measure drug/H+-antiporter function at the blood–brain barrier. In situ brain perfusion experiments in mice and rats showed that diphenhydramine transport at the blood–brain barrier was saturable, following Michaelis–Menten kinetics with a Km = 2.99 mM and Vmax = 179.5 nmol s−1 g−1. In the pharmacological plasma concentration range the carrier-mediated component accounted for 77% of diphenhydramine influx while passive diffusion accounted for only 23%. [14C]Diphenhydramine blood–brain barrier transport was proton and clonidine sensitive but was influenced by neither tetraethylammonium, a MATE1 (SLC47A1), and OCT/OCTN (SLC22A1-5) modulator, nor P-gp/Bcrp (ABCB1a/1b/ABCG2) deficiency. Brain and plasma kinetics of [11C]diphenhydramine were measured by positron emission tomography imaging in rats. [11C]Diphenhydramine kinetics in different brain regions were not influenced by displacement with 1 mg kg−1 unlabeled diphenhydramine, indicating the specificity of the brain positron emission tomography signal for blood–brain barrier transport activity over binding to any central nervous system target in vivo. [11C]Diphenhydramine radiometabolites were not detected in the brain 15 min after injection, allowing for the reliable calculation of [11C]diphenhydramine brain uptake clearance (Clup = 0.99 ± 0.18 mL min−1 cm−3). Diphenhydramine is a selective and specific H+-antiporter substrate. [11C]Diphenhydramine positron emission tomography imaging offers a reliable and noninvasive method to evaluate H+-antiporter function at the blood–brain barrier.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3214-3225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Wanek ◽  
Kerstin Römermann ◽  
Severin Mairinger ◽  
Johann Stanek ◽  
Michael Sauberer ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (99) ◽  
pp. 48-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.H. Hendrikse ◽  
J. Bart ◽  
E.G.E. de Vries ◽  
H.J.M. Groen ◽  
W.T.A. van der Graaf ◽  
...  

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Kessler ◽  
J. C. Goble ◽  
J. H. Bird ◽  
M. E. Girton ◽  
J. L. Doppman ◽  
...  

Positron emission tomography (PET) was employed to examine time-dependent changes in blood–brain barrier (BBB) permeability to [68Ga]ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) in the rhesus monkey, following reversible barrier opening by intracarotid infusion of a hypertonic mannitol solution. The PET technique, when combined with measurements of plasma radioactivity, provided a quantitative measure of the cerebrovascular permeability-area product ( PA) at different times following mannitol infusion. Hypertonic mannitol treatment reversibly increased PA to [68Ga]EDTA more than 10-fold; much of the barrier effect was over by 10 min after mannitol treatment. The results show that PET can be used to measure transient changes in BBB integrity in specific brain regions, under in vivo, noninvasive conditions.


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