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JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
Volume 40, Issue 3, Pages 552-562Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0271678X19828916
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Dopamine transporter; metabolic brain network; Parkinson's disease; positron emission tomography; rapid-eye-movement sleep behavior disorder
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Striatal dopamine transporter (DAT) deficiency and abnormal expression of Parkinson's disease (PD)-related pattern (PDRP) have been observed in patients with idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (IRBD). This study aimed to investigate the correlations between these two measures with comparison to PD using a dual tracer imaging design. Age-matched 37 IRBD patients, 86 PD patients, and 15 control subjects underwent concurrent PET scans with C-11-CFT to quantify dopaminergic dysfunction and F-18-FDG to quantify PDRP expression. IRBD patients were divided into two subgroups: those with relatively normal (IRBD-RN) or abnormal (IRBD-AB) striatal DAT binding. Significantly decreased DAT binding and increased PDRP scores were present in all patient groups, except for IRBD-RN, relative to the controls. There was a significant effect of hemisphere and hemisphere x group interaction for DAT binding but not for PDRP expression. Significant correlations were observed between DAT binding and PDRP expression in the IRBD-AB and PD groups but not in the IRBD-RN group. IRBD patients present with an intermediate state in striatal DAT distribution and PDRP activity between PD and normal controls. The modest correlations between the two measures in both IRBD and PD suggest that differences in network activity cannot be fully explained by nigrostriatal dopaminergic denervation.
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