Age, sex, and reproductive hormone effects on brain serotonin-1A and serotonin-2A receptor binding in a healthy population

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2729-2740

  Moses Kolko, Eydie L ^a   Price, Julie C ^b   Shah, Nilesh ^c   Berga, Sarah ^d   Sereika, Susan M ^c,e   Fisher, Patrick M ^f   Coleman, Rhaven ^c   Becker, Carl ^b   Mason, N Scott ^b   Loucks, Tammy ^d   Meltzer, Carolyn C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e University School of Nursing   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

18F altanserin; 11C WAY100635; age; PET imaging; serotonin receptors; sex

Indexed keywords

ALTANSERIN; ANDROGEN; CARBON 11; ESTRADIOL; FLUORINE 18; N [2 [4 (2 METHOXYPHENYL) 1 PIPERAZINYL]ETHYL] N (2 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 2A RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR POTENTIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1A; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2A; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 80855130809     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.163     Document Type: Article

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