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Published on: August 17, 2016
Biodistribution, blood half-life, and receptor binding of a somatostatin-dextran conjugate
Abstract:
Derivatives of somatostatin (sms) are attracting increasing interest as part of the treatment of several cancer diseases expressing sms receptors (srs). Radiolabeled sms analogs can additionally be used for systemic radiotherapy and for diagnostic investigations. Glycosylated sms-14 (sms-dextran70) was characterized regarding in vitro srs binding, biodistribution, and blood half-life in mice. Rat brain cortex membranes (expressing srs 2) were used for the srs binding study. Tyr3-Octreotide was used as positive control. The binding data were analyzed by competition curve analysis. In the biodistribution study, the Bolton-Hunter reagent was used for the radioiodination of sms-dextran70. Organs and blood were collected at different time-points and the percentage of the injected dose per gram of tissue (%ID/g) was calculated. The conjugate was administered subcutaneously (sc). The sms-dextran70 showed high srs binding affinity (i.e., in the same nanomolar range as the reference ligand Tyr3-octreotide (IC50 approximately 2.5 nM). The blood half-life was approx 27 h after reaching maximum blood concentration 24 h postinjection. Because of the molecular weight of the conjugate (i.e., approx 75,000) being above the kidney threshold for dextran (i.e., 50,000), the digestion and excretion is assumed to be mainly through the hepatobiliary system. Increased uptake was seen in the adrenals, which are receptor-positive organs. Some accumulation was seen in the stomach, indicating certain deiodination of the conjugate label. The sms-dextran70 showed promising properties and its clinical relevance is currently being evaluated in clinical phase I-II studies.
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