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Preparation and evaluation of [(61)Cu]-thiophene-2-aldehyde thiosemicarbazone for PET studies
Amir R Jalilian1, Mirsaeed Nikzad, Hassan Zandi
1Nuclear Medicine Research Group, Agriculture, Medical and Industrial Research School, Karaj, Iran. ajalilian@nrcam.org
Background:
[(61)Cu]Thiophene-2-aldehyde thiosemicarbazone ([(61)Cu]TATS) (4) was prepared according to an analogy of carrier copper compound with antitumor activity, for eventual use in PET.
Material And Methods:
[(61)Cu]TATS was prepared using copper-61 acetate and in-house made ligand (TATS) in one step. (61)Cu was produced via the (nat)Zn(p,x) (61)Cu nuclear reaction (180 mircoA, 22 MeV, 3.2 h) followed by a two-step chromatography method (222 GBq of (61)Cu(2+)). [(61)Cu]TATS preparation was optimized for reaction conditions (buffer concentration and temperature). The tracer was finally administered to normal rats for biodistribution studies.
Results:
Total radiolabelling of the tracer took 30 minutes with a radiochemical purity of more than 90% (using HPLC and RTLC) and specific activity of about 250-300 Ci/mmol. The complex was stable in the presence of human serum for an hour. The biodistribution of copper cation and the tracer was checked in wild-type rats for up to 2 hours with significant spleen and lung uptake of the tracer.
Conclusions:
The production of (61)Cu via the (nat)Zn(p,x) (61)Cu is an efficient and reproducible method with high specific activity leading to the production and preliminary evaluation of [(61,)Cu]TATS, a potential PET tracer, was reported.
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