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ArticleEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging2024

Tau accumulation is associated with dopamine deficiency in vivo in four-repeat tauopathies.

Christian Ferschmann, Konstantin Messerschmidt, Johannes Gnörich, Henryk Barthel, Ken Marek, Carla Palleis, Sabrina Katzdobler, Anna Stockbauer, Urban Fietzek, Anika Finze and 21 more

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Article in European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

31 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Christian Ferschmann *Department of Nuclear Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Konstantin Messerschmidt *Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Johannes GnörichDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Henryk BarthelDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Ken MarekInviCRO, LLC, Boston, MA, USA.
Carla PalleisMunich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany.
Sabrina KatzdoblerDepartment of Neurology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Anna StockbauerDepartment of Neurology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Urban FietzekDepartment of Neurology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Anika FinzeDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Gloria BiecheleDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Jost-Julian RumpfDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Dorothee SaurDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Matthias L SchroeterClinic for Cognitive Neurology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Michael RullmannDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Leonie BeyerDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Florian EckenweberDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Stephan WallDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Andreas SchildanDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Marianne PattDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Andrew StephensLife Molecular Imaging GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
Joseph ClassenDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Peter BartensteinDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
John SeibylInviCRO, LLC, Boston, MA, USA.
Nicolai FranzmeierMunich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany.
Johannes LevinMunich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany.
Günter U HöglingerGerman Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Munich, Germany.
Osama SabriDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Matthias BrendelDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Maximilian ScheifeleDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany. Maximilian.Scheifele@med.uni-muenchen.de.
German Imaging Initiative for Tauopathies (GII4T)
LMU Klinikum · DEUniversity Hospital Leipzig · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DEElucid Bioimaging · USGerman Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases · DEMunich Cluster for Systems Neurology · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeWe hypothesized that severe tau burden in brain regions involved in direct or indirect pathways of the basal ganglia correlate with more severe striatal dopamine deficiency in four-repeat (4R) tauopathies. Therefore, we correlated [

methodsThirty-eight patients with clinically diagnosed 4R-tauopathies (21 male; 69.0 ± 8.5 years) and 15 patients with clinically diagnosed α-synucleinopathies (8 male; 66.1 ± 10.3 years) who underwent [

resultsIn patients with 4R-tauopathies, [

conclusionTau burden in brain regions involved in dopaminergic pathways is associated with aggravated dopaminergic dysfunction in patients with clinically diagnosed primary tauopathies. The ability to sustain dopamine transmission despite tau accumulation may preserve motor function.

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DopamineDopamine Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsPositron-Emission TomographyTauopathiestau ProteinsAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNortropanesTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-PhotonDopamineDopamine Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsNortropanestau Proteins[18F]PI-2620 tau-PET4R-TauDaT imagingMotor reserve

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PMID38366196
PMCPMC11139736
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