The validity of the PET/alpha-[11C]methyl-L-tryptophan method for measuring rates of serotonin synthesis in the human brain

Neuropsychopharmacology. 1999 Jul;21(1):153-7. doi: 10.1016/S0893-133X(98)00140-7.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Brain / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain Chemistry / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Kinetics
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Serotonin / biosynthesis*
  • Serotonin / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed / standards*
  • Tryptophan / analogs & derivatives*

Substances

  • alpha-methyltryptophan
  • Serotonin
  • Tryptophan