title: [Striatal dopamine D2 receptor in Parkinson disease and its related disorders assessed by C-11 NMSP and PET].
abstract: Dopamine D2 receptor binding potential (BP) was measured by C-11 N-methylspiperone (NMSP) and PET in normal healthy volunteers and patients with various neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson disease (PD), multiple system atrophy (MSA), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), Huntington disease (HD) and so on. In normal aging process, striatal BP was decreased according to the age. In never-medicated Parkinson disease, BP was slightly elevated, which may reflect denervation hypersensitivity in postsynaptic site. In contrast, BP was reduced in MSA (SND type) and HD. C-11 NMSP and PET is useful in better understanding of pathophysiology and differential diagnosis of Parkinson disease and its related disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Momose
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sasaki
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000378:metabolism; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018491:Dopamine Agonists; D006801:Humans; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2 / Q000032:analysis*; D013134:Spiperone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D018491:Dopamine Agonists; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2; D013134:Spiperone; C039167:3-N-methylspiperone