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) …

The role of glial cells in multiple sclerosis disease progression

LM Healy, JA Stratton, T Kuhlmann… - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the development of highly effective treatments for relapsing–remitting multiple
sclerosis (MS), limited progress has been made in addressing primary progressive or …

Catalytically potent and selective clusterzymes for modulation of neuroinflammation through single-atom substitutions

H Liu, Y Li, S Sun, Q Xin, S Liu, X Mu, X Yuan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Emerging artificial enzymes with reprogrammed and augmented catalytic activity and
substrate selectivity have long been pursued with sustained efforts. The majority of current …

PET imaging of neuroinflammation in neurological disorders

WC Kreisl, MJ Kim, JM Coughlin, ID Henter… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
A growing need exists for reliable in-vivo measurement of neuroinflammation to better
characterise the inflammatory processes underlying various diseases and to inform the …

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 …

PET imaging of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

R Zhou, B Ji, Y Kong, L Qin, W Ren, Y Guan… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neuroinflammation play an important role in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. Advances in
molecular imaging using positron emission tomography have provided insights into the time …

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 …

Translocator protein is a marker of activated microglia in rodent models but not human neurodegenerative diseases

E Nutma, N Fancy, M Weinert, S Tsartsalis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microglial activation plays central roles in neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative
diseases. Positron emission tomography (PET) targeting 18 kDa Translocator Protein …

Brain TSPO-PET predicts later disease progression independent of relapses in multiple sclerosis

M Sucksdorff, M Matilainen, J Tuisku, E Polvinen… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Overactivation of microglia is associated with most neurodegenerative diseases. In this
study we examined whether PET-measurable innate immune cell activation predicts multiple …

[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 …