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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2015

Methods to Increase the Metabolic Stability of (18)F-Radiotracers.

Manuela Kuchar, Constantin Mamat

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Manuela KucharHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institut für Radiopharmazeutische Krebsforschung, Bautzner Landstraße 400, Dresden D-01328, Germany. m.kuchar@hzdr.de.
Constantin MamatHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institut für Radiopharmazeutische Krebsforschung, Bautzner Landstraße 400, Dresden D-01328, Germany. c.mamat@hzdr.de.
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The majority of pharmaceuticals and other organic compounds incorporating radiotracers that are considered foreign to the body undergo metabolic changes in vivo. Metabolic degradation of these drugs is commonly caused by a system of enzymes of low substrate specificity requirement, which is present mainly in the liver, but drug metabolism may also take place in the kidneys or other organs. Thus, radiotracers and all other pharmaceuticals are faced with enormous challenges to maintain their stability in vivo highlighting the importance of their structure. Often in practice, such biologically active molecules exhibit these properties in vitro, but fail during in vivo studies due to obtaining an increased metabolism within minutes. Many pharmacologically and biologically interesting compounds never see application due to their lack of stability. One of the most important issues of radiotracers development based on fluorine-18 is the stability in vitro and in vivo. Sometimes, the metabolism of (18)F-radiotracers goes along with the cleavage of the C-F bond and with the rejection of [(18)F]fluoride mostly combined with high background and accumulation in the skeleton. This review deals with the impact of radiodefluorination and with approaches to stabilize the C-F bond to avoid the cleavage between fluorine and carbon.

Indexed as

AnimalsCarbonFluorineFluorine RadioisotopesHumansModels, ChemicalMolecular StructureRadiopharmaceuticalsCarbonFluorineFluorine RadioisotopesRadiopharmaceuticalsdeuteriumfluorine-18metabolismstability

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PMID26404227
PMCPMC6332123
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