Jimin Hong, Jiaying Lu, Fengtao Liu, Min Wang, Xinyi Li, Christoph Clement, Leonor Lopes, Matthias Brendel, Axel Rominger, Tzu-Chen Yen, Yihui Guan, Mei Tian, Jian Wang, Chuantao Zuo, Kuangyu Shi
BACKGROUND: Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a primary 4-repeat tauopathy with diverse clinical phenotypes. Previous post-mortem studies examined tau deposition sequences in PSP, but in vivo scrutiny is lacking. METHODS: We conducted [18 F]Florzolotau tau positron emission tomography (PET) scans on 148 patients who were clinically diagnosed with PSP and 20 healthy controls. We employed the Subtype and Stage Inference (SuStaIn) algorithm to identify PSP subtype/stage and related tau patterns, comparing clinical features across subtypes and assessing PSP stage-clinical severity association...
October 13, 2023: EBioMedicine