Simultaneous PET/phMR studies on interplay of mGlu/dopamine receptors in PD-like neurodegeneration

同步 PET/phMR 研究 mGlu/多巴胺受体在 PD 样神经变性中的相互作用

• 批准号: 10518778
• 负责人: ANNA-LIISA BROWNELL
• 金额: $ 68.97万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10518778
• 关键词: Age; Agonist; Amphetamines; Animal Disease Models; Area; Basal Ganglia; Behavioral; Brain; Brain region; Clinical Trials; Cognitive; Complex; Corpus striatum structure; Data; Denervation; Diagnostic; Disease; Dopamine; Dopamine D2 Receptor; Dopamine Receptor; Drug Addiction; Drug Design; Drug Targeting; Drug abuse; Epilepsy; Experimental Animal Model; Failure; Female; Future; GRM5 gene; Glutamates; Image; Imaging ligands; Individual; Lesion; Ligands; Limbic System; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Maps; Measures; Mediating; Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors; Modeling; Mood Disorders; Nerve Degeneration; Neurobiology; Neuronal Plasticity; Neurotransmitters; Oxidopamine; Parkinson Disease; Pathway interactions; Patients; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pharmacologic Substance; Pharmacology; Positron-Emission Tomography; Presynaptic Receptors; Process; Rattus; Regulation; Role; Schizophrenia; Signal Transduction; Specificity; Sprague-Dawley Rats; Support System; Symptoms; Synapses; Synaptic Cleft; Synaptic plasticity; System; Techniques; Therapeutic; Therapeutic Agents; Therapeutic Intervention; Time; Tropanes; Up-Regulation; addiction; alpha synuclein; antagonist; base; behavioral study; benzonitrile; brain circuitry; brain research; cerebral blood volume; chronic pain; density; design; diagnostic tool; disease diagnostic; disorder prevention; dopamine transporter; drug development; imaging study; in vivo imaging; instrumentation; male; metabotropic glutamate receptor 4; neurochemistry; neurotoxicity; neurotransmission; positive allosteric modulator; postsynaptic; presynaptic; pyridine; radioligand; real-time images; receptor; receptor function; response; sensor; serial imaging; side effect; theories; time use; transmission process

ABSTRACT Research of the brain receptor functions holds a promise to provide better diagnostic tools and drugs that could be tailored for the individual needs, thereby eliminating or reducing side effects and even providing a way for prevention of diseases. Increasing understanding of receptor functions is revealing complex and dynamic interactions between neurotransmitter systems. In the basal ganglia, dopamine (DA) regulation of glutamate (Glu) neurotransmission is complex and the loss of DA-mediated inhibition in the striatum f. ex. in Parkinson disease (PD) results in an imbalance of other neurotransmitters, mostly excitatory. Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR)s are activated when there is excess Glu in the synaptic cleft and therefore act as sensors and modulators when or where Glu transmission is enhanced. This functional specificity makes them attractive pharmacological targets. The prevalent localization of mGluRs in the striatum and limbic system supports their role in modulating DA and Glu-dependent signaling and synaptic plasticity within the basal ganglia cortico-subcortical loops. A recent failure of the first clinical trial focusing on agonizing of mGluR4 function inspired this project to investigate the fundamentals of dopaminergic and glutamatergic interplay in PD-like neurodegeneration. We have developed high level imaging instrumentation and techniques as well as unique ligands to conduct quantitative in vivo imaging studies of dopaminergic and glutamatergic neurofunction. We have earlier developed radioligands for PET imaging of dopamine transporters as well as pharmacological MRI (phMRI) to investigate dopamine release. Recently, we have developed allosteric modulators as PET imaging ligands for mGluR4 (presynaptic receptor) and mGluR5 (postsynaptic receptor) and characterized them in experimental animal models. Now we are proposing to combine the phMR imaging of amphetamine induced dopamine release or excessive synaptic glutamate concentration induced by agonizing mGluR4 with mG4P027 (N-(4-chloro-3-((fluoromethyl-d2)thio)phenyl)picolinamide) or antagonizing mGluR5 function with MTEP ((2-methyl-1,3-thiazo-4-yl)ethynyl pyridine) with simultaneous PET imaging of mGluR4, mGluR5 and dopamine D2 receptor function to investigate degeneration induced modulation of dopaminergic and glutamatergic neurotransmission using α- synuclein rat model of PD and its additional 6-OHDA lesioned counterpart (combination model). Real time imaging of receptor modulation will challenge the present theories of signaling and synaptic plasticity during degenerative processes. The results of this receptor modulation can be readily utilized in the drug development for dopamine-glutamate regulation related disorder, like Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia or drug addiction.

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