Tricarbonyltechnesium-99m or rhenium-188-labeled cyclic RGD derivative, method for producing the same, and pharmaceutical composition for diagnosis or treatment of neovascular diseases involving the same as an active ingredient
The present invention relates to a tricarbonyl technetium-99m or rhenium-188 label ring RGD derivative, a preparation method thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the derivative as an active ingredient for use in the diagnosis or treatment of angiogenesis-related diseases. The tricarbonyl technetium-99m or rhenium-188 label ring RGD derivative of the present invention has a high subnanomolar affinity to avss3 integrin (also called as a vitronectin receptor that is activated in an angiogenic action induced by a tumor, reflects a high tumor image after an animal in which cancer cells are transplanted received an initial intake of the tricarbonyl technetium-99m label ring RGD derivative, and acts exclusively upon cancer cells having selectively activated avss3 integrin because of a substantially low intake into the liver and intestines,； compared to existing known radioactive isotope label ring RGD derivatives. These results show that the rhenium-188 label derivative, a therapeutic nuclide using the same precursor as used in the technetium-99m label, effectively inhibits the growth of a tumor and demonstrates therapeutic efficacy when administered via tail vein injection to an animal model of a tumor, compared to a case where only saline has been injected, thereby making it useful as a medicine for the diagnosis or treatment of angiogenesis-related diseases.
