Nigrostriatal dopaminergic function in subjects with isolated action tremor

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-53

  Coria, Francisco ^a   Gimenez Garcia, Marta ^a   Samaranch, Lluis ^b   Mora, Francisco J ^c   Sampol Bas, Catalina ^a   Pastor, Pau ^b,d,e  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c Hospital Comarcal d'Inca   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

Author keywords

Action tremor; DAT SPECT; Essential tremor; Tremor; Tremor dominant parkinsonism

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; IOMETOPANE I 123;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; ISOLATED ACTION TREMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; ONSET AGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREMOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84655163425     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2011.08.025     Document Type: Article

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