2020 Publications

118. Zhang, X.; Zhang, Y.; Chen, Z.; Shao, T.; Van, R.; Kumata, K.; Deng, X.; Fu, H.; Yamasaki, T.; Rong, J.; Hu, K.; Hatori, A.; Xie, L.; Yu, Q.; Ye, W.; Xu, H.; Sheffler, D. J.; Cosford, N. D. P.; Shao, Y.; Tang, P.; Wang, L.; Zhang, M.-R. and Liang, S. H. “Synthesis and preliminary studies of 11C-labeled tetrahydro-1,7-naphthyridine-2-carboxamides for PET imaging of metabotropic glutamate receptor 2″  Theranostics, 2020, 10, 11178-11196.   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33042277/

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117. Yamasaki, T.; Zhang, X.; Kumata, K.; Zhang, Y.; Deng, X.; Fujinaga, M.; Chen, Z.; Mori, W.; Hu, K; Wakizaka, H; Hatori, A.; Xie, L.; Ogawa, M.; Nengaki, N.; Van, R.; Shao, Y.; Sheffler, D. J.; Cosford, N. D. P.; Liang, S. H. and Zhang, M.-R. “Identification and Development of A New Positron Emission Tomography Ligand 4-(2-Fluoro-4-[11C]methoxyphenyl)-5-((1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)methoxy)picolinamide for Imaging of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtype 2 (mGlu2)”   Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2020, 63, 11469-11483.   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7892210/

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116. Zhang, L.; Hu, K.; Shao, T.; Hou, L.; Zhang, S.; Ye, W.; Josephson, L.; Meyer, J. H.; Zhang, M.-R.; Vasdev, N.; Wang, J.; Xu, H.; Wang, L. and Liang, S. H.  “Recent developments on PET radiotracers for TSPO and their applications in neuroimaging”   Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021, 11, 373-393.    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33643818/

 

115. Chen, Z.; Hou, L.; Gan, J.; Cai, Q.; Ye, W.; Chen, J.; Tan, Z.; Zheng, C.; Li, G.; Xu, H.; Fowler, C. J.; Liang, S. H. and Wang, L.  “Synthesis and Preliminary Evaluation of a Novel Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Ligand for Imaging Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase (FAAH)”  Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2020, 30, 127513. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2020.127513

 

114. Sun, J., Kumata, K., Chen, Z., Zhang, Y., Chen, J., Hatori, A., Fu, H., Rong, J., Deng, X., Yamasaki, T., Xie, L., Hu, K., Yu, Q., Shao, T., Collier, T. L., Josephson, L., Shao, Y., Du, Y., Wang, L., Xu, H., Zhang, M.-R. and Liang, S. H.  “Synthesis and Preliminary Evaluation of Novel 11C-Labeled GluN2B-selective NMDA Receptor Negative Allosteric Modulators” Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2020, DOI:10.1038/s41401-020-0456-9.

 

113. Brugarolas, P., Comstock, J., Dick, D.W., Ellmer, T., Engle, J.W., Lapi, S.E., Liang, S. H., Parent, E.E., Kishore, Pillarsetty N.V., Selivanova, S., Sun, X., Vavere, A., Scott, P.J.H., and Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council.    “Fifty Years of Radiopharmaceuticals” Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, 2020, 48 (Suppl 1), S34-39.  PMID: 32605944.

 

112. Varlow, C., Boileau, I., Wey, H-Y., Liang, S. H. and Vasdev, N.  “Classics in Neuroimaging: Imaging the Endocannabnoid Pathway with PET” ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2020,    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00305.

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111. Deng, X., Zhang, Y., Chen, Z., Kumata, K., Van, R., Rong, J., Shao, T., Hatori, A., Mori, W., Yu, Q., Hu, K., Fujinaga, M., Wey, H.-Y., Shao, Y., Josephson, L., Murtas, G., Pollegioni, L., Zhang, M.-R., and Liang, S. H.  “Synthesis and preliminary evaluation of 4-hydroxy-6-(3-[11C]methoxyphenethyl)pyridazin-3(2H)-one, a 11C-labeled d-amino acid oxidase (DAAO) inhibitor for PET imaging” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2020, 30, 127326. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960894X20304376

 

110. Hu, K., Xie, L., Zhang, Y., Hanyu, M., Yang, Z., Nagatsu, K., Suzuki, H., Ouyang, J., Ji, X., Wei, J., Xu, H., Farokhzad, O. C., Liang, S. H.,* Wang, L.,* Tao, W.,* Zhang, M.-R.*   “Marriage of black phosphorus and Cu2+ as effective photothermal agents for PET-guided combination cancer therapy”  Nature Communications 2020, 11, 2778.

 

109. Deng, X., Zhang, Y., Rong, J., Kumata, K., Shao, T., Wang, G., Hatori, A., Mori, W., Yu, Q., Hu, K., Fujinaga, M., Shao, Y., Josephson, L., Sun, S., Zhang, M.-R., and Liang, S. H.  “Synthesis and preliminary evaluation of 18F-labeled 1-(6,7-dimethyl-4-(methylamino)-1,3-dihydro-2H-pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyridin-2-yl)-2-(trans-2-(6-fluoropyridin-3-yl)cyclopropyl)ethan-1-one for imaging muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtype 4” Tetrahedron Letters, 2020, 61, 152060.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2020.152060

 

108. Chen, Z., Chen, J., Mast, N., Rong, J., Deng, X., Shao, T., Fu, H., Yu, Q., Sun, J., Shao, Y., Josephson, L., Collier, T. L., Pikuleva, I. and Liang, S. H. “Synthesis and pharmacokinetic study of a 11C-labeled cholesterol 24-hydroxylase inhibitor using ‘in-loop’ 11CO2 fixation method” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2020, 30, 127068. PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32178974/

 

107. Xiao, Z., Wang, L., Wei, J., Ran, C., Liang, S. H., Shang, J., Chen, G. Y. and Zheng, C. “Visible-light induced decarboxylative coupling of redox-active esters with disulfides to construct C-S bonds” Chemical Communications, 2020, ASAP, DOI: 10.1039/d0cc00451k.

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106. Shao, T., Chen, Z., Belov, V., Wang, X., Rwema, S., Kumar, V., Fu, H., Deng, X., Rong, J., Yu, Q., Lang, L., Lin, W., Josephson, L., Samir, A., Chen, X., Chung, R. and Liang, S. H.  “[18F]-Alfatide PET imaging of integrin αvβ3 for the non-invasive quantification of liver fibrosis” Journal of Hepatology, 2020, accepted.  PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32145257/

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105. Liang, J., Huang, Y. Y., Zhou, Q., Cao, Y., Li, Z., Wu, D., Yu, S., Guo, L., Chen, Z., Huang, L., Liang, S. H., He, X., Wu, R., Luo H. B. “Discovery and optimization of α-mangostin derivatives as novel PDE4 inhibitors for the treatment of vascular dementia” Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2020, 63, 3370-3380. PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32115956/

 

104. Varlow, C., Murrell, E., Holland, J. P., Kassenbrock, A., Shannon, W., Liang, S. H., Vasdev, N. and Stephenson, N. A. “Revisiting the Radiosynthesis of [18F]FPEB and Preliminary PET Imaging in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease” Molecules, 2020, 25, 982. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25040982

 

103. Lin, X. P., Xiao, Z. Z., Chen, T., Liang, S. H. and Guo, H. Q. “Glucose Metabolism on Tumor Plasticity, Diagnosis and Treatment” Frontiers in Oncology, 2020, 10, article 317. PMC: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7069415/

 

102. Chen, J., Gan, J., Sun, J., Chen, Z., Fu, H., Rong, J., Deng, X., Shang, J., Gong, J., Collier, L., Wang, L., Xu, H. and Liang, S. H. “Radiosynthesis and preliminary evaluation of 11C-labeled 4-cyclopropyl-7-(3-methoxyphenoxy)-3,4-dihydro-2H-benzo[e] [1,2,4] thiadiazine 1,1-dioxide for PET imaging AMPA receptors” Tetrahedron Letters, 2020, 61, 151635.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7062035/ 

 

101. Yu, Q., Kumata, K., Li, H., Zhang, Y., Chen, Z., Zhang, X., Shao, T., Hatori, A., Yamasaki, T., Xie, L., Hu, K., Wang, G., Josephson, L., Sun, S., Zhang, M-R. and Liang, S. H. “Synthesis and evaluation of 6-(11C-methyl(4-(pyridin-2-yl)thiazol-2-yl)amino)benzo[d]thiazol-2(3H)-one for imaging γ-8 dependent transmembrane AMPA receptor regulatory protein by PET” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2020, 30, 126879.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7045276/  

 

100. Wang, L., Yao, S., Tang, R., Zhu, H., Zhang, L., Gong, J., Chen, Q., Collier, T. L., Xu, H.,  and Liang, S. H.  “A concisely automated synthesis of TSPO radiotracer [18F]FDPA based on spirocyclic iodonium ylide (SCIDY) method and validation for human use”Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals, 2020, accepted, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jlcr.3824

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99. Hu, K., Yang, Z.M., Zhang, L.L., Xie, L., Wang, L., Xu, H., Josephson, L., Liang, S.H. and Zhang, M.-R. “Boron agents for neutron capture therapy” Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2020, 405, 213139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2019.213139

 

98. Yu,  H., Zhao, W., Zhou, Y., Cheng, G-J., Sun, M., Wang, L., Yu, L., Ran, C. and Liang, S. H. “Salen-based Bifunctional Chemosensor for Copper (II) Ions: Inhibition of Copper-induced Amyloid-β Aggregation” Analytica Chimica Acta, 2020, 1097, 144-152.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2019.10.072.

 

97. Lin, J-H., Deng, X., Xiao, J-C., and Liang, S. H.  “Recent advances in 18F-labeling of trifluoromethylthiolation”, in Frontiers of Organofluorine Chemistry, World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2020, 649-665. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347336_0014

 

96. Rong, J., Chen, Z., Vasdev, N. and Liang, S. H.  “Aryl-18F bond formation from nucleophilic [18F]fluoride”, in Frontiers of Organofluorine Chemistry, World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2020, 617-648. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347336_0013