Budget Amount *help |
¥24,570,000 (Direct Cost: ¥18,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,670,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥6,890,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,590,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥7,280,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,680,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥10,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,400,000)
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Research Abstract |
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease of the brain associated with irreversible cognitive decline, memory impairment, and behavioral changes. Postmortem brains of AD patients reveal neuropathologic features : the presence of senile plaques (SPs) and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), which contain β-amyloid proteins and highly phosphorylated tau proteins. In the present study, we successfully designed and synthesized several PET/SPECT imaging probes for in vivo detection of SPs and NFTs, and evaluated their utility as molecular imaging probes for SPs and NFTs.
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