[18F]-AV-1451 binding profile in chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a postmortem case series
Marquié M, Agüero C, Amaral A, Villarejo-Galende A, Ramanan P, Chong M, Sáez-Calveras N, Bennett R, Verwer E, Kim S, Dhaynaut M, Alvarez V, Johnson K, McKee A, Frosch M, Gómez-Isla T. [18F]-AV-1451 binding profile in chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a postmortem case series. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2019, 7: 164. PMID: 31661038, PMCID: PMC6816221, DOI: 10.1186/s40478-019-0808-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTau aggregationPositron emission tomographyTau lesionsPresence of tau aggregatesInferior parietal cortexSuperior temporal cortexPaired helical filamentsTau seeding activityHyperphosphorylated tau speciesDetection of tau aggregatesTraumatic encephalopathyPostmortem brain tissue samplesCorticobasal degenerationProgressive supranuclear palsyBinding profilesTau-containing lesionsRepetitive head traumaDifferential binding affinityFrontal cortexTemporal cortexParietal cortexTau conformationTau speciesBinding affinityOccipital cortex