Gender Differences in Age-Related Striatal Dopamine Depletion in Parkinson’s Disease

Objective Gender differences are a well-known clinical characteristic of Parkinson’s disease (PD). In-vivo imaging studies demonstrated that women have greater striatal dopamine transporter (DAT) activity than do men, both in the normal population and in PD patients. We hypothesize that women exhibi...

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Main Authors: Jae Jung Lee, Jee Hyun Ham, Phil Hyu Lee, Young H. Sohn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Movement Disorders Society 2015-09-01
Series:Journal of Movement Disorders
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PET
Online Access:http://e-jmd.org/upload/jmd-8-3-130.pdf