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Assessment of Cardiac Function and Energetics in Isolated Mouse Hearts Using 31P NMR Spectroscopy
Published on: August 31, 2010
Assessment of cardiac sympathetic nerve integrity with positron emission tomography
1Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0552, USA. raffel@umich.edu
Abstract:
The autonomic nervous system plays a critical role in the regulation of cardiac function. Abnormalities of cardiac innervation have been implicated in the pathophysiology of many heart diseases, including sudden cardiac death and congestive heart failure. In an effort to provide clinicians with the ability to regionally map cardiac innervation, several radiotracers for imaging cardiac sympathetic neurons have been developed. This paper reviews the development of neuronal imaging agents and discusses their emerging role in the noninvasive assessment of cardiac sympathetic innervation.
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