The autonomic nervous system and heart failure

VG Florea, JN Cohn - Circulation research, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
The pathophysiology of heart failure (HF) is characterized by hemodynamic abnormalities
that result in neurohormonal activation and autonomic imbalance with increase in …

[HTML][HTML] Critical neurotransmitters in the neuroimmune network

TW Hodo, MTP De Aquino, A Shimamoto… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Immune cells rely on cell-cell communication to specify and fine-tune their responses. They
express an extensive network of cell communication modes, including a vast repertoire of …

Nuclear imaging of the cardiac sympathetic nervous system: a disease-specific interpretation in heart failure

JGE Zelt, RA deKemp, BH Rotstein, GM Nair… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - jacc.org
Abnormalities in the cardiac sympathetic nervous system have been documented in various
heart diseases and have been directly implicated in their pathogenesis and disease …

Radiopharmaceutical tracers for cardiac imaging

O Manabe, T Kikuchi, AJHA Scholte… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and disease burden worldwide.
Nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging with either single-photon emission computed …

Retention kinetics of the 18F-labeled sympathetic nerve PET tracer LMI1195: comparison with 11C-hydroxyephedrine and 123I-MIBG

RA Werner, C Rischpler, D Onthank… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
18F-N-[3-bromo-4-(3-fluoro-propoxy)-benzyl]-guanidine (18F-LMI1195) is a new PET tracer
designed for noninvasive assessment of sympathetic innervation of the heart. The 18F label …

The future of cardiac molecular imaging

G Farber, KE Boczar, CC Wiefels, JGE Zelt… - Seminars in nuclear …, 2020 - Elsevier
Molecular imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission
computed tomography (SPECT) serves numerous applications in clinical cardiology and …

Targeting the autonomic nervous system: measuring autonomic function and novel devices for heart failure management

HC Patel, SD Rosen, A Lindsay, C Hayward… - International journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Neurohumoral activation, in which enhanced activity of the autonomic nervous system (ANS)
is a key component, plays a pivotal role in heart failure. The neurohumoral system affects …

Towards a clearer view of sympathetic innervation of cardiac and skeletal muscles

A Di Bona, V Vita, I Costantini, T Zaglia - Progress in Biophysics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
It is well appreciated that autonomic neurons have a central role in the homeostatic
regulation of organs and systems and participate to the pathogenesis of several disease …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular Imaging-Derived Biomarker of Cardiac Nerve Integrity—Introducing High NET Affinity PET Probe 18F-AF78

X Chen, RA Werner, K Koshino, N Nose, S Mühlig… - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Radiolabeled agents that are substrates for the norepinephrine transporter
(NET) can be used to quantify cardiac sympathetic nervous conditions and have been …

[HTML][HTML] SPECT vs. PET in cardiac innervation imaging: clash of the titans

RA Werner, X Chen, M Hirano, SP Rowe… - Clinical and translational …, 2018 - Springer
Purpose We aim to provide an overview of the conventional single photon emission
computed tomography (SPECT) and emerging positron emission tomography (PET) …