New SPECT and PET Radiopharmaceuticals for Imaging Cardiovascular Disease
Figure 11
Mechanism of uptake of 123I-MIBG, an analogue of norepinephrine, in presynaptic sympathetic nerve terminals adapted from Rogers et al. [84] {catechol-O-methyl transferase = COMT; normetanephrine = NMN; alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptor subtypes = -, -R and 2c; norepinephrine transporter 1 = NET1}.