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A Clinical Technique Using Hg¹⁹⁷ for Determining the Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier: A Preliminary Report

JAMES JANECEK, GLEN CRAMER, MERLE K. LOKEN, and CARL D. KOUTSKYAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 123, Number 8

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.1005

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Five psychiatric patients were given one millicurie of Hg¹⁹⁷ intravenously; following this, lumbar and venous punctures were performed. The data suggest that Hg¹⁹⁷ passes the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier. As indicated by this study and by the literature on the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier, radioisotope techniques may prove to be a valuable investigative method.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 123 • Number 8 • February 1967

Pages: 1005 - 1007

PubMed: 6017823

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Published in print: February 1967

Published online: 1 April 2006

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JAMES JANECEK

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GLEN CRAMER

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MERLE K. LOKEN

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CARL D. KOUTSKY

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Director of the In-Patient Psychiatric Service, St. Paul-Ramsey Hospital, St. Paul, Minn. 55101

Medical Fellow, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School

Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, and Director of the Nuclear Medicine Clinic, University of Minnesota Medical School

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School

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A Clinical Technique Using Hg¹⁹⁷ for Determining the Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier: A Preliminary Report

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