In Vivo Comparative Imaging of Dopamine D2 Knockout and Wild-Type Mice with 11C-Raclopride and MicroPET
Panayotis K. Thanos, PhD1,
Nicholas B. Taintor, MS1,
David Alexoff, BSE2,
Paul Vaska, PhD1,
Jean Logan, PhD2,
David K. Grandy, PhD3,
Yuan Fang, PhD3,
Jing-Huei Lee, PhD2,
Joanna S. Fowler, PhD2 and
Nora D. Volkow, MD1
1 Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
2 Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
3 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon

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FIGURE 1. Photograph of Concorde microPET R4 system.
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FIGURE 2. Transverse (A and B) and sagittal (C and D) microPET images (summed across frames 1124) of ST injected with 11C-raclopride. (A and C) WT (D2+/+) mouse. (B and D) KO (D2-/-) mouse. HG = harderian gland.
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FIGURE 4. MR images of WT (A) and KO (B) mouse (sagittal plane, top left; horizontal plane, top right; coronal plane, bottom left).
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FIGURE 5. Representative examples of time-activity curves of ST and CB normalized to injected dose for blocking study. (A) KO (D2-/-) mouse. (B) WT (D2+/+) mouse.
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FIGURE 6. Autoradiograms of 3H-spiperone binding autoradiography in WT (A and C, +/+) and DRD2 KO (B and D, -/-) mice. (A and B) Total binding images in presence of 0.6 nmol/L 3H-spiperone and 40 nmol/L ketanserin. (C and D) Nonspecific binding images in presence of same concentration of tritiated ligand and ketanserin plus 5 µmol/L (+)-butaclamol. DRD2 binding signal was wiped out in most of caudate putamen (CPU) region in DRD2 KO mice (B) in comparison with WT counterpart (A). CTX = cerebral cortex; Acb = nucleus accumbens.
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