Increased regional cerebral blood flow but normal distribution of GABAA receptor in the visual cortex of subjects with early-onset blindness

NeuroImage

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 125-131

  Mishina, Masahiro ^a,b,c   Senda, Michio ^b,d   Kiyosawa, Motohiro ^b,e   Ishiwata, Kiichi ^b   De Volder, Anne G ^f   Nakano, Hideki ^g   Toyama, Hinako ^b,h   Oda, Kei Ichi ^b   Kimura, Yuichi ^b   Ishii, Kenji ^b   Sasaki, Touru ^b   Ohyama, Masashi ^b,c   Komaba, Yuichi ^a,b,c   Kobayashi, Shirou ^a   Kitamura, Shin ^c   Katayama, Yasuo ^c  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL CHIBA HOKUSOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Japan)

^e TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; FLUMAZENIL C 11; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER O 15;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0038777494     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00051-X     Document Type: Article

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