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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 123, No. 8

Articles | February 01, 1967

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

JAMES JANECEK; GLEN CRAMER; MERLE K. LOKEN; CARL D. KOUTSKY

Am J Psychiatry 1967;123:1005-1007.

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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

1966-67, American Psychiatric Association

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Abstract

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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