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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Med. 2008 Dec 17;50(1):108–115. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.108.056226

TABLE 2.

Cerebral blood flow and extraction fraction at baseline and after P-gp blockade*

CBF (mL · cm−3 · min−1)
Extraction fraction
Region Baseline Blocked Baseline (n=3) Blocked (n=5)
Frontal cortex 0.37 ± 0.09 0.43 ± 0.17 0.09 ± 0.04 0.43 ± 0.10
Anterior cingulate 0.48 ± 0.12 0.54 ± 0.20 0.06 ± 0.03 0.42 ± 0.12
Temporal cortex 0.46 ± 0.07 0.58 ± 0.18 0.12 ± 0.03 0.40 ± 0.09
Pariatal cortex 0.32 ± 0.02 0.37 ± 0.15 0.12 ± 0.06 0.57 ± 0.13
Hippocampus 0.43 ± 0.04 0.51 ± 0.15 0.12 ± 0.04 0.42 ± 0.13
Occipital cortex 0.31 ± 0.04 0.38 ± 0.19 0.12 ± 0.06 0.58 ± 0.10
Putamen 0.64 ± 0.07 0.95 ± 0.15 0.06 ± 0.02 0.31 ± 0.10
Cerebellum 0.61 ± 0.22 0.67 ± 0.12 0.05 ± 0.02 0.42 ± 0.13
Mean 0.45 0.56 0.09 0.44
*

P-gp was blocked by DCPQ 8 mg/kg (n=4) or 16 mg/kg (n=1), i.v., 30 min prior to injection of 11C-dLop Cerebral blood flow (CBF) is reported as mean ± SD from 3 monkeys

Extraction fraction was calculated using the mean CBF's to the left and averaged across monkeys