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Molecular imaging in hereditary forms of parkinsonism.
European journal of neurology - 1 Apr 2007
Shih M C, Felicio A C, de Oliveira Godeiro-Junior C, de Carvalho Aguiar P, de Andrade L A F, Ferraz H B, Bressan R A
Abstract excerpt
The development of in vivo molecular imaging to evaluate the dopamine (DA) system with positron-emission tomography and single photon emission computed tomography has been of key importance on monitoring in vivo nigrostriatal neuronal loss in Parkinson's disease (PD), mostly through assessments of pre- and post-synaptic DA receptors. The discoveries of genes related to hereditary forms of parkinsonism (PARK1,...
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