in vivo Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Striatal Dopamine Functions in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
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- 16 August 2006
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
- Vol. 27 (4), 803-810
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jcbfm.9600389
Abstract
Differentiation of impaired gait seen in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) from parkinsonian gait is sometimes a great challenge and important for future medication in the clinical setting. To investigate dopaminergic contribution to its pathophysiology, two aspects of the transsynaptic dopamine functions in the striatal region in eight iNPH patients naïve to dopaminergic drugs were examined using positron emission tomography with a presynaptic marker [11C]CFT ([11C]2-β-carbomethoxy-3β-(4-fluorophenyl) tropane) that binds to dopamine transporter and a postsynaptic marker [11C]raclopride that binds to D2 receptor. Quantitative values of binding potentials (BPs) for [11C]CFT and [11C]raclopride were compared between patients and eight age-matched healthy subjects. The BPs and magnetic resonance imaging-based morphometric measures in iNPH were used for correlation analyses between the magnitude of binding of these in vivo markers and clinical severity of the patients. Analysis of variance showe...Keywords
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