In Vivo Detection of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy with 18F-MK-6240 Tau PET

使用 18F-MK-6240 Tau PET 体内检测慢性创伤性脑病

• 批准号: 10323058
• 负责人: Michael Alosco
• 金额: $ 20.27万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10323058
• 关键词: Age; Alzheimer disease prevention; Alzheimer' s Disease; American; Amyloid; Autopsy; Autoradiography; Behavior; Behavioral; Binding; Biological Markers; Blood Vessels; Boston; Brain; Brain Concussion; Brain Diseases; California; Cell physiology; Clinical; Clinical Research; Cognitive; Consent; Data; Dementia; Deposition; Detection; Diagnosis; Enrollment; Epidemiology; Evaluation; Exposure to; Funding; Future; Generations; Geographic Locations; Goals; Image; Individual; Infrastructure; Lesion; Life; Ligands; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Manufactured football; Measures; Medial; Moods; Neurobehavioral Manifestations; Neurodegenerative Disorders; Neurologic; Neurons; Neuropsychology; Pathology; Patient Self-Report; Persons; Play; Population; Positron-Emission Tomography; Prevention; Recording of previous events; Registries; Reporting; Research; Resources; Risk; Risk Factors; Sampling; San Francisco; Senile Plaques; Signal Transduction; Source; Staging; Temporal Lobe; Testing; Tracer; Traumatic Brain Injury; Universities; Visit; Wisconsin; affective disturbance; chronic traumatic encephalopathy; clinical diagnosis; cognitive function; contact sports; experience; formycin triphosphate; head impact; high risk; human imaging; imaging properties; imaging study; improved; in vivo; in vivo imaging; indexing; interest; male; military service; nervous system disorder; neuropathology; neuropsychiatry; ranpirnase; resilience; subconcussion; tau Proteins; tau aggregation; tau-1; tool; uptake

PROJECT ABSTRACT Exposure to repetitive head impacts (RHI) through participation in contact sports can result in symptomatic concussions and asymptomatic sub-concussions and may increase risk for the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The pathognomonic lesion of CTE is phosphorylated tau (p-tau) deposition in neurons and other cell processes around small blood vessels, at the depths of the cortical sulci. CTE can only be diagnosed at autopsy, severely limiting research on risk and resilience factors, mechanisms, epidemiology and treatment. There is an urgent need for in vivo biomarkers that can accurately detect CTE and differentiate it from other neurological disorders in living people. Tau positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is a promising tool for detecting p-tau aggregates in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Initial human imaging studies using the tau PET ligand 18F-flortaucipir (18F-FTP) in individuals at high risk for CTE show low intensity binding and modest correlations between antemortem imaging and post-mortem tau. 18F-MK-6240 is a second- generation tau PET ligand that has improved in vivo imaging properties and reduced “off-target” (non-tau related) binding compared to 18F-FTP. Our goal is to test the premise that the tau-PET ligand MK-6240 can detect p-tau pathology in living people at high risk for CTE. We will compare MK-6240 standard uptake value ratios (SUVR) in 30 male former National Football League (NFL) players with cognitive symptoms, ages 45-74, and 10 matched male cognitively normal individuals without a TBI history (i.e., “controls”). We will leverage the infrastructure of the NIA-funded Univ. of California, San Francisco AD Research Center (UCSF ADRC) and the NIA-funded Boston University AD Research Center (BU ADRC) and the experience these centers have in the evaluation of symptomatic former NFL players and with PET imaging. Former NFL players and controls will enroll in the UCSF or BU ADRC, depending on their geographical location, and complete harmonized exams, including neurological, neuropsychological, and self-report mood/behavior measures; MRI exams; and brain donation consent. The resources from this proposal will supplement the Center visits with tau-PET (MK-6240) and amyloid (18F-florbetapir) imaging. We will test the hypothesis that that compared to controls, former NFL players at-risk for CTE will show increased MK-6240 retention in a distribution consistent with CTE neuropathological staging, and tracer retention will correlate with worse cognitive and neuropsychiatric function and greater exposure to RHI. This will be the first study to examine the usefulness of tau-PET MK-6240 in the detection of CTE p-tau. If successful, it will provide preliminary data for larger proposals to examine MK-6240 as an accurate and reliable biomarker to support a clinical diagnosis of probable CTE and differentiate it from other neurological disorders. The ability to accurately detect and diagnose CTE during life is a critical next step in clinical research on the risk factors, mechanisms, and treatment of this brain disease.

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