Imperial College London
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Dr David R Owen MD PhD

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Brain Sciences

Reader in Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Medicine
 
 
 
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G20AICTEM buildingHammersmith Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Owen:2015:10.1007/s40336-015-0141-z,
author = {Owen, DR and Guo, Q and Rabiner, EA and Gunn, RN},
doi = {10.1007/s40336-015-0141-z},
journal = {Clinical and Translational Imaging},
pages = {417--422},
title = {The impact of the rs6971 polymorphism in TSPO for quantification and study design},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40336-015-0141-z},
volume = {3},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Second-generation translocator protein (TSPO) radioligands were developed to circumvent the technical short comings of 11C-PK11195, the first TSPO targeting tracer. However, in early clinical positron emission tomography (PET) studies they displayed greater inter- and intra-subject variability than was expected given the promising characteristics they showed in preclinical and in vitro studies. A great deal of this variability, although not all, can be explained by the rs6971 polymorphism in the gene encoding TSPO. This polymorphism causes a single amino acid substitution in the TSPO which, for all second-generation tracers tested in man hitherto, reduces binding affinity in mutants relative to wild type. This has obvious implications for interpretation of data, because inter-subject comparisons in PET studies are predicated on the assumption that binding affinity is consistent across all subjects. In this paper, we discuss the implications of the rs6971 polymorphism on study design, analysis and interpretation of data for clinical PET studies using second-generation TSPO radioligands.
AU  - Owen,DR
AU  - Guo,Q
AU  - Rabiner,EA
AU  - Gunn,RN
DO  - 10.1007/s40336-015-0141-z
EP  - 422
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 2281-5872
SP  - 417
TI  - The impact of the rs6971 polymorphism in TSPO for quantification and study design
T2  - Clinical and Translational Imaging
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40336-015-0141-z
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/30059
VL  - 3
ER  -
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