PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Rominger, Axel AU - Brendel, Matthias AU - Burgold, Steffen AU - Keppler, Kevin AU - Baumann, Karlheinz AU - Xiong, Guoming AU - Mille, Erik AU - Gildehaus, Franz-Josef AU - Carlsen, Janette AU - Schlichtiger, Juli AU - Niedermoser, Sabrina AU - Wängler, Björn AU - Cumming, Paul AU - Steiner, Harald AU - Herms, Jochen AU - Haass, Christian AU - Bartenstein, Peter TI - Longitudinal Assessment of Cerebral β-Amyloid Deposition in Mice Overexpressing Swedish Mutant β-Amyloid Precursor Protein Using <sup>18</sup>F-Florbetaben PET AID - 10.2967/jnumed.112.114660 DP - 2013 Jul 01 TA - Journal of Nuclear Medicine PG - 1127--1134 VI - 54 IP - 7 4099 - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/54/7/1127.short 4100 - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/54/7/1127.full SO - J Nucl Med2013 Jul 01; 54 AB - The progression of β-amyloid deposition in the brains of mice overexpressing Swedish mutant β-amyloid precursor protein (APP-Swe), a model of Alzheimer disease (AD), was investigated in a longitudinal PET study using the novel β-amyloid tracer 18F-florbetaben. Methods: Groups of APP-Swe and age-matched wild-type (WT) mice (age range, 10–20 mo) were investigated. Dynamic emission recordings were acquired with a small-animal PET scanner during 90 min after the administration of 18F-florbetaben (9 MBq, intravenously). After spatial normalization of individual PET recordings to common coordinates for mouse brain, binding potentials (BPND) and standardized uptake value ratios (SUVRs) were calculated relative to the cerebellum. Voxelwise analyses were performed using statistical parametric mapping (SPM). Histochemical analyses and ex vivo autoradiography were ultimately performed in a subset of animals as a gold standard assessment of β-amyloid plaque load. Results: SUVRs calculated from static recordings during the interval of 30–60 min after tracer injection correlated highly with estimates of BPND based on the entire dynamic emission recordings. 18F-florbetaben binding did not significantly differ in APP-Swe mice and WT animals at 10 and 13 mo of age. At 16 mo of age, the APP-Swe mice had a significant 7.9% increase (P &lt; 0.01) in cortical 18F-florbetaben uptake above baseline and at 20 mo there was a 16.6% increase (P &lt; 0.001), whereas WT mice did not show any temporal changes in tracer uptake during the interval of follow-up. Voxelwise SPM analyses revealed the first signs of increased cortical binding at 13 mo and confirmed progressive binding increases in both the frontal and the temporal cortices (P &lt; 0.001 uncorrected) to 20 mo. The SUVR strongly correlated with percentage plaque load (R = 0.95, P &lt; 0.001). Conclusion: In the first longitudinal PET study in an AD mouse model using the novel β-amyloid tracer 18F-florbetaben, the temporal and spatial progression of amyloidogenesis in the brain of APP-Swe mice were sensitively monitored. This method should afford the means for preclinical testing of novel therapeutic approaches to the treatment of AD.