Benzodiazepine receptor distribution and cerebral blood flow in early blindness - A PET study

Keio Journal of Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2000, Pages

  Mishina, Masahiro ^a,b   Senda, Michio ^b   Kiyosawa, Motohiro ^b,c   De Volder, Anne ^f   Toyama, Hinako ^b,d   Ishiwata, Kiichi ^b   Oda, Keiichi ^b   Kimura, Yuichi ^b   Nakano, Hideki ^e   Ohyama, Masashi ^a,b   Kitamura, Shin ^a   Katayama, Yasuo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepine receptor; Cerebral blood flow; Early blindness; Positron emission tomography; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; CARBON 11; FLUMAZENIL; OXYGEN 15; WATER;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECEPTOR DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034075183     PISSN: 00229717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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