Staging of serotonergic dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease: An in vivo 11C-DASB PET study

Thirty Parkinson's disease (PD) patients were divided into three equal groups according to their disease duration while 10 normal healthy volunteers matched for age and sex served as a control group. Striatal and extrastriatal serotonergic function was studied with 11C-DASB PET, a marker of ser...

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Main Authors: Marios Politis, Kit Wu, Clare Loane, Lorenzo Kiferle, Sophie Molloy, David J. Brooks, Paola Piccini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010-10-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
Subjects:
PET
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996110001907