First Visualization of Epigenetic Activity in Living Human Brain (IMAGE)

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First Visualization of Epigenetic Activity in Living Human Brain

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[11C]Martinostat images averaged from 60 to 90 minutes after radiotracer injection from a representative subject overlaid on anatomical magnetic resonance (MR) image. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 10, 2016, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by H.-Y. Wey at Massachusetts General Hospital in Charlestown, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Insights into neuroepigenetics through human histone deacetylase PET imaging."

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H.-Y. Wey <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2016)

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