POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SHOWS HIGH SPECIFIC UPTAKE OF RACEMIC C-11 LABELED NOREPINEPHRINE IN THE PRIMATE HEART

被引:18
作者
FARDE, L [1 ]
HALLDIN, C [1 ]
NAGREN, K [1 ]
SUHARA, T [1 ]
KARLSSON, P [1 ]
SCHOEPS, KO [1 ]
SWAHN, CG [1 ]
BONE, D [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV TURKU,CTR CYCLOTRON PET,SF-20500 TURKU,FINLAND
来源
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE | 1994年 / 21卷 / 04期
关键词
NOREPINEPHRINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; HEART; MONKEYS;
D O I
10.1007/BF00947971
中图分类号
R8 [特种医学]; R445 [影像诊断学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100207 ; 1009 ;
摘要
(-)-Norepinephrine is the predominant neurotransmitter of the sympathetic innervation of the heart. Racemic norepinephrine was labelled with carbon-11 and injected i.v. into Cynomolgus monkeys. Five minutes after injection there was a more than tenfold higher radioactivity in the heart than in adjacent tissue. Pretreatment with the norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor desipramine reduced the uptake by more than 80%. The high specific uptake of racemic [C-11]norepinephrine indicates that enatiomerically pure (-)-[C-11]norepinephrine has promising potential for detailed mapping of the sympathetic innervation of the human myocardium.
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