title: Dopamine D2 receptor binding is reduced in Wilson's disease: correlation of neurological deficits with striatal 123I-iodobenzamide binding.
abstract: To visualise and quantify dopamine D2 receptor binding in the corpus striatum of patients with neurological Wilson's disease (WD) 123I-Iodobenzamide (IBZM) binding was measured using single photon emission computer tomography (SPECT). Ratios of striatal to frontal countrates were calculated in 8 patients and in 21 healthy control subjects. We found reduced IBZM binding ratios in all patients with WD in comparison to those in controls (1.48 +/- 0.13 vs. 1.73 +/- 0.09). The reduction in IBZM binding was correlated with the overall severity of neurological deficits and the severity of dysarthria (correlation coefficients -0.86 [p < 0.01] and -0.79 [p < 0.01], respectively). When patients of three different subgroups of neurological WD were compared no differences in IBZM binding were found. We conclude that assessing basal ganglia function in vivo using IBZM-SPECT is a valuable diagnostic tool in WD.
authors.affiliation: University Clinic for Neurology, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Oder
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Brücke
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kollegger
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spatt
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Asenbaum
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Deecke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001549:Benzamides / Q000378:metabolism*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D006527:Hepatolenticular Degeneration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011759:Pyrrolidines / Q000378:metabolism*; D011869:Radioligand Assay; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2 / Q000378:metabolism*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
chemical_list: D001549:Benzamides; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D011759:Pyrrolidines; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2; C055743:3-iodo-2-hydroxy-6-methoxy-N-((1-ethyl-2-pyrrolidinyl)methyl)benzamide