Sigma-1 targeted PET tracers

by | May 5, 2020 | Mach, Robert, Tu, Zhude "Will", Wang, Wei

— Technology Description

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and their colleagues have developed positron emission tomography (PET) tracers with high affinity for sigma-1 receptors. Sigma receptors have two subtypes, sigma-1 and sigma-2. Sigma-1 has high expression in the limbic and mo…