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Ann Neurol
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Synaptic Loss in Frontotemporal Dementia Revealed by [11 C]UCB-J Positron Emission Tomography.

Authors

Maura Malpetti, P Simon Jones, Thomas E Cope, Negin Holland, Michelle Naessens, Matthew A Rouse, Timothy Rittman, George Savulich, David J Whiteside, Duncan Street, Tim D Fryer, Young T Hong, Selena Milicevic Sephton, Franklin I Aigbirhio, John T O Brien, James B Rowe

Abstract

Synaptic loss is an early feature of neurodegenerative disease models, and is severe in post mortem clinical studies, including frontotemporal dementia. Positron emission tomography (PET) with radiotracers that bind to synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A enables quantification of synaptic density in vivo. This study used [11 C]UCB-J PET in participants with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), testing the hypothesis that synaptic loss is severe and related to clinical severity.

PMID:36321699 | DOI:

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