Imaging of Intracerebral Inflammation in MS

Summary

In this study we plan to image the compartmentalized inflammation in MS using molecular imaging by positron emission tomography (PET) with a very highly resolutive camera. Two tracers will be studied and compared: i) \[18F\]DPA-714, which bind to the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR), a target mainly expressed by activated microglial cells. This new ligand for PBR displays several advantages compared to the existing reference compound PK11195 in term of brain entrance, signal to noise ratio, and radiolabelling possibility with \[18F\] ii) \[18F\]-fluoro-desoxy-glucose (\[18F\]FDG), which should reflect glucose metabolism in activated immune cells in the white matter. Progressive MS patients (secondary progressive and primary progressive) will be compared to relapsing-remitting patients and to healthy volunteers. All subjects will pass a complete neurological evaluation and a multimodal MRI to document clinical disability and tissue injury. A clinical and radiological follow up will then be performed for a 2-year period. This study should help to understand the contribution of the intracerebral inflammation on the progression of disability and could provide a surrogate marker for further therapeutic trials in chronic progressive MS.

Timeline

Start

2012-03-19

Primary completion

2018-09-10

Completion

2018-09-10

Publications

• Peyronneau MA, Kuhnast B, Nguyen DL, Jego B, Sayet G, Caille F, Lavisse S, Gervais P, Stankoff B, Sarazin M, Remy P, Bouilleret V, Leroy C, Bottlaender M. [18F]DPA-714: Effect of co-medications, age, sex, BMI and TSPO polymorphism on the human plasma input function. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2023 Sep;50(11):3251-3264. doi: 10.1007/s00259-023-06286-1. Epub 2023 Jun 9.
• Ricigliano VAG, Louapre C, Poirion E, Colombi A, Yazdan Panah A, Lazzarotto A, Morena E, Martin E, Bottlaender M, Bodini B, Seilhean D, Stankoff B. Imaging Characteristics of Choroid Plexuses in Presymptomatic Multiple Sclerosis: A Retrospective Study. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2022 Oct 13;9(6):e200026. doi: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000200026. Print 2022 Nov.
• Garcia-Lorenzo D, Lavisse S, Leroy C, Wimberley C, Bodini B, Remy P, Veronese M, Turkheimer F, Stankoff B, Bottlaender M. Validation of an automatic reference region extraction for the quantification of [18F]DPA-714 in dynamic brain PET studies. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2018 Feb;38(2):333-346. doi: 10.1177/0271678X17692599. Epub 2017 Feb 9.

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