This report describes the first human study of a novel amyloid-imaging positron emission tomography (PET) tracer, termed Pittsburgh Compound-B (PIB), in 16 patients with diagnosed mild AD and 9 controls. Compared with controls, AD patients typically showed marked retention of PIB in areas of association cortex known to contain large amounts of amyloid deposits in AD. In the AD patient group, PIB retention was increased most prominently in frontal cortex (1.94-fold, p = 0.0001). Large increases also were observed in parietal (1.71-fold, p = 0.0002), temporal (1.52-fold, p = 0.002), and occipital (1.54-fold, p = 0.002) cortex and the striatum (1.76-fold, p = 0.0001). PIB retention was equivalent in AD patients and controls in areas known to be relatively unaffected by amyloid deposition (such as subcortical white matter, pons, and cerebellum). Studies in three young (21 years) and six older healthy controls (69.5 +/- 11 years) showed low PIB retention in cortical areas and no significant group differences between young and older controls. In cortical areas, PIB retention correlated inversely with cerebral glucose metabolism determined with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose. This relationship was most robust in the parietal cortex (r = -0.72; p = 0.0001). The results suggest that PET imaging with the novel tracer, PIB, can provide quantitative information on amyloid deposits in living subjects.

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SummaryThe retention behaviour of highly polar and charged disaccharide isomers has been studied on porous graphitic carbon columns and experimental parameters were varied over wide a range, including concentration and type of mobile phase constituents as well as temperature. The hydrophilic and anionic sugar analytes were highly retained on this stationary phase compared to the octadecyl-derivatized silica packings more commonly used. E.g., an increase in retention with polarity of a solute and with temperature was observed. By isotherm measurements and nonlinear fitting of Langmuirian expressions to the experimental data the graphite surface appeared homogeneous with only one kind of active adsorption site for these kinds of compound which was furthermore supported by the linearVan't Hoff plots obtained byvarying the temperature. The gain in free energy was found to be entropically driven after determination of the AH ~ and AS ~ values. However, enthalpy-entropy compensation behavior was not met.

Abstract:In this study, ultrafiltration and microdialysis have been compared as sample preparation methods to separate the free fraction of ropivacaine from the protein bound in 150 L plasma. A liquid chromatographic system with packed Ž . capillary columns 0.2 mm internal diameter was used to enhance sensitivity when analyzing the small sample volumes obtained after the ultrafiltration and the microdialysis. The microdialysis was performed with probes of our own construction, and to save analysis time, the microdialysis sampling was coupled on-line to the liquid chromatographic system. The reduction of back pressure in the microdialysis outlet tube and in the injector was found to be essential. The free fraction obtained with each method was equivalent: both gave a free fraction of 6%.