Cited by 44Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorSchizophrenia research and treatmentRadiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications

Cerebral 5-HT release correlates with [ 11 C]Cimbi36 PET measures of 5-HT2A receptor occupancy in the pig brain

Open access
Jørgensen, Louise M, Weikop, Pia, Villadsen, Jonas, Visnapuu, Tanel, Ettrup, Anders, Hansen, Hanne D, Baandrup, Anders O, Andersen, Flemming L +4 more·2017·Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism

Abstract

Positron emission tomography (PET) can, when used with appropriate radioligands, non-invasively generate temporal and spatial information about acute changes in brain neurotransmitter systems. We for the first time evaluate the novel 5-HT 2A receptor agonist PET radioligand, [ 11 C]Cimbi-36, for its sensitivity to detect changes in endogenous cerebral 5-HT levels, as induced by different pharmacological challenges. To enable a direct translation of PET imaging data to changes in brain 5-HT levels, we calibrated the [ 11 C]Cimbi-36 PET signal in the pig brain by simultaneous measurements of extracellular 5-HT levels with microdialysis and [ 11 C]Cimbi-36 PET after various acute interventions (saline, citalopram, citalopram + pindolol, fenfluramine). In a subset of pigs, para-chlorophenylalanine pretreatment was given to deplete cerebral 5-HT. The interventions increased the cerebral extracellular 5-HT levels to 2–11 times baseline, with fenfluramine being the most potent pharmacological enhancer of 5-HT release, and induced a varying degree of decline in [ 11 C]Cimbi-36 binding in the brain, consistent with the occupancy competition model. The observed correlation between changes in the extracellular 5-HT level in the pig brain and the 5-HT 2A receptor occupancy indicates that [ 11 C]Cimbi-36 binding is sensitive to changes in endogenous 5-HT levels, although only detectable with PET when the 5-HT release is sufficiently high.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1177/0271678x16629483

Cites

58 of 58 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Fenfluramine challenge transiently increased the interstitial serotonin content in cortex ten-fold according to microdialysis.

    “transiently increased the interstitial serotonin content in cortex ten-fold according to microdialysis [104].”
  • Jorgensen et al. argued that occupancy of 5HT2A sites labelled with [11C]-Cimbi-36 by endogenous serotonin in anesthetized pig increased from 17% at baseline to 44% after fenfluramine treatment, which transiently increased interstitial serotonin content in cortex ten-fold according to microdialysis.

    “Nonetheless, Jorgensen et al. argued that the occupancy of 5HT2A sites labelled with [11C]-Cimbi-36 (38) by endogenous serotonin in anesthetized pig increased from 17% at baseline to 44% after fenfluramine treatment, which transiently increased the interstitial serotonin content in cortex ten-fold according to microdialysis [104].”
  • The sensitivity of [11C]-Cimbi-36 binding to fenfluramine challenge seemed to exceed that reported earlier for [18F]-altanersin in healthy human volunteers, albeit at a lower dose of fenfluramine in humans.

    “This sensitivity of [11C]-Cimbi-36 (38) binding to fenfluramine challenge seemed to exceed that reported earlier for [18F]-altanersin (39) in healthy human volunteers, albeit at a lower relatively lower dose of fenfluramine in human [104].”

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

1 of the 59 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Jørgensen, L. M., Weikop, P., Villadsen, J., Visnapuu, T., Ettrup, A., Hansen, H. D., Baandrup, A. O., Andersen, F. L., Bjarkam, C. R., Thomsen, C., Jespersen, B., & Knudsen, G. M.
Affiliations
  • University of Copenhagen (DK)
  • Rigshospitalet (DK)
  • Roskilde Sygehus (DK)
  • Aalborg University Hospital (DK)
Corresponding author
Knudsen, Gitte M
Venue
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
Published
2016-07-20
Volume
37
Issue
2
Pages
425-434
ISSN
  • 0271-678X (ISSN-L)
  • 1559-7016
OpenAlex
W2273847960
Cited by
44
References
59
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 1
FWCI
3.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Lundbeckfonden (R183 2014 3836, R170-2014-994)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
Keywords
5-HT2A receptor, serotonin release, PET radiotracer, receptor occupancy, fenfluramine, citalopram, pindolol, p-chlorophenylalanine, microdialysis, pig brain
MeSH terms
Animals, Benzylamines, Brain, Carbon Radioisotopes, Female, Fenfluramine, Phenethylamines, Serotonin, Swine, Serotonin Agents, Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT2A, Positron-Emission Tomography, Serotonin 5-HT2 Receptor Agonists

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review