# A Brief Summary of PET Imaging of Dopaminergic System

**Authors:** Ismet Sarikaya

PMC · DOI: 10.1055/s-0045-1802590 · World Journal of Nuclear Medicine · 2025-01-30

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- **Genes:** SLC7A5 (solute carrier family 7 member 5) [NCBI Gene 8140] {aka 4F2LC, CD98, D16S469E, E16, LAT1, MPE16}, SLC6A3 (solute carrier family 6 member 3) [NCBI Gene 6531] {aka DAT, DAT1, PKDYS, PKDYS1}, SLC18A2 (solute carrier family 18 member A2) [NCBI Gene 6571] {aka PKDYS2, SVAT, SVMT, VAT2, VMAT2}, DDC (dopa decarboxylase) [NCBI Gene 1644] {aka AADC}
- **Diseases:** schizophrenia (MESH:D012559), progressive supranuclear palsy (MESH:D013494), neurodegeneration (MESH:D019636), drug addictions (MESH:D019966), carcinoids of midgut (MESH:D002276), pheochromocytoma (MESH:D010673), gliomas (MESH:D005910), medullary thyroid carcinoma (MESH:C536914), parkinsonian syndromes (MESH:D020734), neuroinflammation (MESH:D000090862), cancer (MESH:D009369), multiple system atrophy (MESH:D019578), Alzheimer's disease (MESH:D000544), corticobasal degeneration (MESH:D000088282), congenital hyperinsulinemia (MESH:D006946), neuroblastoma (MESH:D009447), hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia (MESH:D044903), paragangliomas (MESH:D010235), dementia (MESH:D003704), metastases (MESH:D009362), radiation necrosis (MESH:D011832), essential tremor (MESH:D020329), Parkinson's disease (MESH:D010300), insulinoma (MESH:D007340), neuroendocrine tumors (MESH:D018358), neurologic and psychiatric disorders (MESH:D001523), Huntington's disease (MESH:D006816), astrocytosis (MESH:D005911), dementia with Lewy bodies (MESH:D020961), psychogenic parkinsonism (MESH:D010302)
- **Chemicals:** 18 F-FDOPA (MESH:C043437), 11 C-harmine (-), 123 I-MIBG (MESH:D019797), 18 F-fluorodeprenyl (MESH:C000608231), Dopamine (MESH:D004298), carbidopa (MESH:D002230), L-DOPA (MESH:D007980), radiotracers (MESH:D011868), 18 F-fallypride (MESH:C094948), catecholamine (MESH:D002395), 18 F-fluorodopamine (MESH:C029253), 18 F-desmethoxyfallypride (MESH:C100958)
- **Species:** Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

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