Caudate glucose hypometabolism in a subject carrying an unstable allele of intermediate CAG(33) repeat length in the Huntington's disease gene

Mov Disord. 2011 Apr;26(5):925-7. doi: 10.1002/mds.23623. Epub 2011 Mar 2.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Caudate Nucleus / diagnostic imaging
  • Caudate Nucleus / metabolism*
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Glucose / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Huntingtin Protein
  • Huntington Disease / diagnostic imaging
  • Huntington Disease / genetics*
  • Huntington Disease / pathology*
  • Male
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins / genetics*
  • Nuclear Proteins / genetics*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography / methods
  • Trinucleotide Repeats / genetics*

Substances

  • HTT protein, human
  • Huntingtin Protein
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins
  • Nuclear Proteins
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Glucose