[3P] 62 Schizophrenia

[3P-245] In vivo brain imaging of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and activated microglia in schizophrenia: A PET study

*Tomoyasu Wakuda¹, Masamichi Yokokura¹, Yosuke Kameno¹, Toshiki Iwabuchi², Chihiro Murayama¹, Taishi Tamayama¹, Yasuhiro Magata³, Yasuomi Ouchi^4,5,6, Hidenori Yamasue^1,2 (1. Department of Psychiatry, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, 2. Research Center for Child Mental Development, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, 3. Department of Molecular Imaging, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, 4. Department of Biofunctional Imaging, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan, 5. Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, Japan, 6. Hamamatsu Medical Photonics Foundation, Hamamatsu, Japan)

Keywords:α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors , microglia, schizophrenia, positron emission tomography