Diminished glucose transport in Alzheimer's disease: Dynamic PET studies

Journal Article · Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/jcbfm.1991.65· OSTI ID:5943891

Jagust, W J; Seab, J P; Huesman, R H; Valk, P E; Mathis, C A; Reed, B R; Coxson, P G; Budinger, T F ^[1]

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1. Martinez Veterans Administration Medical Center, CA (USA)

Dynamic positron emission tomography with (18F)fluorodeoxyglucose was used in six patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and seven healthy age-matched control subjects to estimate the kinetic parameters K1*, k2*, and k3* that describe glucose transport and phosphorylation. A high-resolution tomograph was used to acquire brain uptake data in one tomographic plane, and a radial artery catheter connected to a plastic scintillator was used to acquire arterial input data. A nonlinear iterative least-squares fitting procedure that included terms for the vascular fraction and time delay to the peripheral sampling site was used to fit a three-compartment model to the brain data. Regions studied included frontal, temporal, occipital, and the entire cortex and subcortical white matter. The values obtained for the individual rate constants and regional CMRglc (rCMRglc; calculated using regional values of the rate constants) were higher than those reported previously. A significant (p less than 0.05) decrease was found in K1* in frontal and temporal cortex in the AD patients compared with the controls, with values of 0.157 and 0.161 ml/g/min in frontal and temporal cortex, respectively, of controls and 0.127 and 0.126 ml/g/min in frontal and temporal cortex of the AD patients. rCMRglc was also significantly (p less than 0.02) lower in the AD patients than controls in all cortical brain regions. Lower values of k3* were found in all brain regions in the AD patients, although these were not statistically significant. These findings provide evidence of an in vivo abnormality of forward glucose transport in AD.

• OSTI ID: 5943891
• Journal Information: Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism; (USA), Vol. 11:2; ISSN 0271-678X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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