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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-13
pubmed:abstractText
Recently we developed a novel imaging technique using positron emitter-labeled compounds as probes and a storage phosphor screen as a detector. This approach makes it possible to follow a variety of biochemical processes with spatial information in living brain slices. Further technical development is reported here in terms of time-resolved imaging and receptor characterization in a real equilibrium state. The method was validated by use of [11C]Ro15-1788, a benzodiazepine receptor antagonist. Fresh brain slices were incubated with [11C]Ro15-1788 in oxygenated Krebs-Ringer solution at 37 degrees C, in a specially designed chamber. By placing the chamber on a storage phosphor screen, we could obtain two-dimensional images of radioactivity in the slices. Time-resolved imaging was made at 5 min intervals, revealing that it took 60 min to reach equilibrium binding. The dissociation process was observed by adding an excess amount of unlabeled Ro15-1788 to the chamber, 25 min was required for the full dissociation. In the equilibrium state, i.e. in the presence of free radio-ligand, Scatchard plot analysis was performed on the cerebral cortex (Kd = 7.4 nM, Bmax = 146 fmol/mg tissue) and striatum (Kd = 7.5 nM, Bmax = 107 fmol/mg tissue), suggesting the presence of a single component of binding site in these two regions. The present method, for the first time, made it possible to study a ligand-receptor interaction in living brain slices with temporal and spatial resolutions. This technique should prove useful for studies of receptor function under physiological conditions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0168-0102
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
145-54
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Receptor imaging technique with 11C-labeled receptor ligands in living brain slices: its application to time-resolved imaging and saturation analysis of benzodiazepine receptor using [11C]Ro15-1788.
pubmed:affiliation
Subfemtomole Biorecognition Project, Research Development Corporation of Japan, Osaka, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study