title: Labelling of poly-L-lysine with 99mTc and evaluation as a possible tracer agent for ventriculography.
abstract: A stable 99mTc-labelled compound that is easy to prepare and that is retained for a long period of time in the blood would constitute an ideal replacement for 99mTc-HSA (limited by its rapid diffusion) and 99mTc-erythrocytes (lengthy and risky in vitro labelling) as tracer agent for ventriculography. We investigated whether 99mTc-labelled polymers would be suitable for this purpose. Four types of poly-L-lysine (PL) (Mw 41,000 to 377,000) were used either in underivatized form labelled at pH 12, or derivatized with a varying number of mercaptoacetyl (MA) substituents by reaction with N-hydroxysuccinimidyl-S-acetylmercaptoacetate followed by deprotection with hydroxylamine and labelling at pH 7.5. A high labelling yield was obtained in all cases. HPLC-purified 99mTc-PLs and 99mTc-MA-PLs were evaluated in mice, with 125I-HSA as an internal biological standard. The retention in the blood at 10 minutes and 60 minutes p.i. was not higher than about 30% for any of the tested compounds versus 84% for 125I-HSA, and was only 10% for the smallest 99mTc-labelled PL and MA-PL. Liver uptake was high for the 99mTc-PLs, whereas the 99mTc-MA-PL's were excreted in significant amounts to the urine. It is concluded that 99mTc-labelled poly-L-lysines or polymercaptoacetyl-poly-L-lysines are not suitable as blood pool tracer agents.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, F.F.W., Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Verbeke
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ons
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Roo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Verbruggen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D007553:Isotope Labeling; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D011107:Polylysine / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D015635:Radionuclide Ventriculography; D012709:Serum Albumin; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D012709:Serum Albumin; C094942:technetium Tc 99m polylysine; D011107:Polylysine