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MEDICINE
Volume 100, Issue 39, Pages -Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000027192
Keywords
binding potential; dopamine transporter; healthy individuals; single photon emission computed tomography; technetium-99 metastable TRODAT-1
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- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES), Brazil [001]
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The study evaluated the DAT binding potential in healthy Brazilians using TRODAT-1 imaging, finding a decrease in DAT-BP with age. Women had higher DAT-BP than men, but both genders showed equal decrease in DAT-BP with age.
The presynaptic dopamine transporter (DAT) modulates the uptake of dopamine by regulating its concentration in the central nervous system. We aimed to evaluate the DAT binding potential (DAT-BP) in a sample of healthy Brazilians through technetium-99 metastable TRODAT-1 single-photon emission computed tomography imaging. We selected 126 healthy individuals comprising 72 men and 54 women, aged 18 to 80 years. We conducted semi-quantitative evaluation in transaxial slices, following which we identified the regions of interest in the striatal region using the occipital lobe as a region of non-specific DAT-BP. We found a decrease in DAT-BP in healthy individuals aged over 30 years, culminating in a 42% mean reduction after 80 years. There was no difference in the decrease by age group between the right (linear regression test [R-2] linear = 0.466) and left striatum (R-2 linear = 0.510). Women presented a higher DAT-BP than men (women: R-2 linear = 0.431; men: R-2 linear = 0.457); nonetheless, their decrease by age group was equal to that in men. Our study sheds light on important DAT-BP findings in healthy Brazilian subjects. Our results will facilitate understanding of brain illnesses that involve the dopamine system, such as neuropsychiatric disorders.
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