Rapid loss of striatal VMAT2 binding associated with onset of lewy body dementia [5]

Movement Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 287-288

  Albin, Roger ^a   Koeppe, Robert ^b  

^a Department of Neurology Geriatric Research ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIHYDROTETRABENAZINE; VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER 2;

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; MEMORY DISORDER; PARKINSONISM; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PSYCHOMETRY; PUTAMEN; REM SLEEP; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DISORDER; STRIATE CORTEX; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PUTAMEN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REM SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 33644948128     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20733     Document Type: Letter

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