Neuroinflammation in psychiatric disorders: PET imaging and promising new targets

JH Meyer, S Cervenka, MJ Kim, WC Kreisl… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Neuroinflammation is a multifaceted physiological and pathophysiological response of the
brain to injury and disease. Given imaging findings of 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO) …

Central nervous system macrophages in progressive multiple sclerosis: relationship to neurodegeneration and therapeutics

E Kamma, W Lasisi, C Libner, HS Ng… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
There are over 15 disease-modifying drugs that have been approved over the last 20 years
for the treatment of relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), but there are limited …

Choroid plexus enlargement in inflammatory multiple sclerosis: 3.0-T MRI and translocator protein PET evaluation

VAG Ricigliano, E Morena, A Colombi, M Tonietto… - Radiology, 2021 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Choroid plexuses (CPs) have been suggested as a key gateway for
inflammation in experimental autoimmune encephalitis, but in vivo evidence of their …

Neuroinflammation in schizophrenia: the role of nuclear factor kappa B

CE Murphy, AK Walker, CS Weickert - Translational psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Neuroinflammation, particularly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, is well-established in a
subset of people with schizophrenia, with significant increases in inflammatory markers …

Cellular sources of TSPO expression in healthy and diseased brain

E Nutma, K Ceyzériat, S Amor, S Tsartsalis… - European journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO) is a highly conserved protein located in the outer
mitochondrial membrane. TSPO binding, as measured with positron emission tomography …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments on PET radiotracers for TSPO and their applications in neuroimaging

L Zhang, K Hu, T Shao, L Hou, S Zhang, W Ye… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
The 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO), previously known as the peripheral
benzodiazepine receptor, is predominately localized to the outer mitochondrial membrane in …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging neuroinflammation with TSPO: A new perspective on the cellular sources and subcellular localization

TR Guilarte, AN Rodichkin, JL McGlothan… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Translocator Protein 18 kDa (TSPO), previously named Peripheral Benzodiazepine
Receptor, is a well-validated and widely used biomarker of neuroinflammation to assess …

Neuronal activity increases translocator protein (TSPO) levels

T Notter, SM Schalbetter, NE Clifton, D Mattei… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
The mitochondrial protein, translocator protein (TSPO), is a widely used biomarker of
neuroinflammation, but its non-selective cellular expression pattern implies roles beyond …

Imaging of translocator protein upregulation is selective for pro‐inflammatory polarized astrocytes and microglia

M Pannell, V Economopoulos, TC Wilson… - Glia, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Translocator protein (TSPO) expression is increased in activated glia, and has been used as
a marker of neuroinflammation in PET imaging. However, the extent to which TSPO …

Chronic inflammation in multiple sclerosis—seeing what was always there

PM Matthews - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Activation of innate immune cells and other compartmentalized inflammatory cells in the
brains and spinal cords of people with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) and …