Tobacco Smoking in People Is Not Associated with Altered 18-kDa Translocator Protein Levels: A PET Study

The effects of tobacco smoking on the immune system of the brain are not well elucidated. Although nicotine is immunosuppressive, other constituents in tobacco smoke have inflammatory effects. PET imaging of the 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO) provides a biomarker for microglia, the primary immun...

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Veröffentlicht in:J Nucl Med
Hauptverfasser: Hillmer, Ansel T., Matuskey, David, Huang, Yiyun, Nabulsi, Nabeel, Ropchan, Jim, Carson, Richard E., O’Malley, Stephanie S., Cosgrove, Kelly P.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Society of Nuclear Medicine 2020
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Neurology
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7413239/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32005773
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.119.237735
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