Perfusion deficit to cholinergic challenge in veterans with Gulf War Illness

Peiying Liu; Sina Aslan; Xiufeng Li; David M. Buhner; Jeffrey S. Spence; Richard W. Briggs; Robert W. Haley; Hanzhang Lu

doi:10.1016/j.neuro.2010.12.004

Perfusion deficit to cholinergic challenge in veterans with Gulf War Illness

Peiying Liu, Sina Aslan, Xiufeng Li, David M. Buhner, Jeffrey S. Spence, Richard W. Briggs, Robert W. Haley, Hanzhang Lu

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Abstract

A highly plausible etiology for Gulf War Illness (GWI) is that the neural damage and cognitive deficits are associated with excessive exposure to cholinesterase-inhibiting cholinergic stimulants. Our previous SPECT study provided strong indication that cerebral blood flow (CBF) in veterans with GWI may be different from those of unaffected control veterans. The present study confirmed and extended previous findings that patients with GWI have abnormal response to an inhibitory cholinergic challenge, physostigmine infusion, when compared to age-gender-education matched control veterans. The MRI-based arterial spin labeling (ASL) and phase-contrast techniques have several key advantages over SPECT, including shorter experiment duration, complete non-invasiveness, and higher spatial and temporal resolutions, and therefore may provide a cost-effective biomarker for characterization of GWI.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	242-246
Number of pages	5
Journal	NeuroToxicology
Volume	32
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuro.2010.12.004
State	Published - Mar 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Arterial spin labeling MRI
Brain diseases
Cerebral blood flow
Gulf War Illness
Phase-contrast MRI
Physostigmine

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General Neuroscience
Toxicology

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