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New PET imaging technique may help monitor neurological disease progression

Bioengineer by Bioengineer
January 23, 2017
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Olfactory neurons in the nasal cavity are the primary source of our sense of smell. Unlike many types of neurons, olfactory neurons are continuously generated throughout the adult lifespan. This uniquely high rate of neuronal birth and death makes olfactory neurons particularly sensitive to the detrimental effects of progressive neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease. In Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, loss of the sense of smell often precedes classical symptoms of cognitive or motor dysfunction. Therefore, a technique that is able to non-invasively quantify the olfactory neuron population could provide important insights related to the diagnosis and progression of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases. In work published this week in the JCI, a team led by Jacob Hooker at Harvard Medical School assessed GV1-57, a radiotracer that specifically binds to mature olfactory sensory neurons, as an approach for quantifying neuronal populations with PET imaging. Using GV1-57, they were able to detect neuron generation during rodent postnatal development as well as neuron degeneration in rodent models of aging and neurodegenerative disease. In an additional proof-of-concept experiment, they showed that GV1-57 maintained saturable binding in non-human primate nasal cavity, suggesting that this radiotracer may be useful for evaluating neurological disease in clinical settings.

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TITLE: Nasal Neuron PET Imaging: Quantification of Neuron Generation and Degeneration

AUTHOR CONTACT:

Jacob Hooker
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
[email protected]
View this article at: http://www.jci.org/articles/view/89162?key=37c9236e0b179ec72e19

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AUTHOR CONTACT:

Helene Benveniste
Yale School of Medicine
[email protected]
View this article at: http://www.jci.org/articles/view/91305?key=98a9730eae3f89543dc5

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Elyse Dankoski
[email protected]
@jclinicalinvest

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