Dopamine transporter imaging with [123I]-β-CIT demonstrates presynaptic nigrostriatal dopaminergic damage in Wilson's disease

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 60-64

  Jeon, B ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dopamine transporter; Nuclear imaging; Striatum; Substantia nigra; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; IODINE 123;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE ENDING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; WILSON DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CARRIER PROTEINS; COCAINE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARKINSON DISEASE, SECONDARY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0031842078     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.65.1.60     Document Type: Article

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