GABAergic dysfunction in essential tremor: An11C-flumazenil PET study

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1030-1035

  Boecker, Henning ^a,b   Weindl, Adolf ^a   Brooks, David J ^c   Ceballos Baumann, Andres O ^d   Liedtke, Christoph ^a   Miederer, Matthias ^a   Sprenger, Till ^a,e   Wagner, Klaus J ^a   Miederer, Isabelle ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NEUROLOGISCHES KRANKENHAUS MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flumazenil; GABA; PET; Tremor

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; FLUMAZENIL C 11; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUMAZENIL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRIBUTION VOLUME; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; GABAERGIC DYSFUNCTION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SYNTHESIS; THALAMUS;

AGED; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; FLUMAZENIL; GABA MODULATORS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; THALAMUS;

EID: 77954987272     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.109.074120     Document Type: Article

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