Imaging receptors for drugs in neural tissue.
Over the past ten to fifteen years, receptor mapping has expanded from a very minor technique, beseiged by problems and limited in its approach, to one that is widespread, extended beyond receptors and applied to clinical problems and populations with modern imaging and scanning techniques.
Kuhar
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Neuroscience Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland 21224.
D000818:Animals; D001345:Autoradiography; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism; D011942:Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha / Q000032:analysis; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000378:metabolism*; D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic / Q000032:analysis; D018028:Receptors, Neurotensin; D017981:Receptors, Neurotransmitter / Q000032:analysis; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
D011942:Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D011950:Receptors, Cholinergic; D018028:Receptors, Neurotensin; D017981:Receptors, Neurotransmitter