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Dopamine and serotonin transporter availability in chronic heroin users: a [¹²³I]β-CIT SPECT imaging study
Kelly P Cosgrove1, Karen Tellez-Jacques, Brian Pittman
1Yale University School of Medicine and the VACHS, New Haven, CT 06516, United States. kelly.cosgrove@yale.edu
Psychiatry Research
|November 6, 2010
Abstract:
Dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT) transporter availability in heroin users and healthy controls was measured using [¹²³I]β-CIT and SPECT imaging. Heroin users had statistically similar striatal DA and brainstem and diencephalon 5-HT transporter availability compared with controls. No associations between transporter availability and heroin use characteristics were found.

