An FP-CIT PET comparison of the difference in dopaminergic neuronal loss in subtypes of early Parkinson's disease.

CONCLUSION: We suggest that differential of DAT uptake in the striatum did not allow for a reliable separation of subtypes into tremor-dominant and non-tremor-dominant, especially in the early stages of PD. Therefore, we assumed that many systems besides the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system are involved in the generation of tremors in PD.
PMID: 23943629 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acta Radiologica - August 13, 2013 Category: Radiology Authors: Song IU, Chung YA, Oh JK, Chung SW Tags: Acta Radiol Source Type: research