Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects an estimated 1.7 million people in the United States and
is a contributing factor to one third of all injury related deaths annually. According to the …

PET imaging of metabolism involves many choices, from hardware settings, software options
to animal handling considerations. How to decide what settings or conditions to use is not …

Small-animal PET scanning with 18F-FDG is increasingly used in murine models of human
diseases. However, the impact of dietary conditions, mode of anesthesia, and ambient …

Background It has recently been reported that intermittent fasting shapes the gut microbiota
to benefit health, but this effect may be influenced to the exact fasting protocols. The purpose …

The use of small animal imaging is increasing in biomedical research thanks to its ability to
localize altered biochemical and physiological processes in the living animal and to follow …

The effects of dietary condition and blood glucose level on the kinetics and uptake of 18F-
FDG in mice were systematically investigated using intraperitoneal and tail-vein injection …

BACKGROUND: Recent evidence suggests that hexokinase mitochondria association
attenuates cell death, and that plasma glucose and insulin concentrations can influence …

Anesthesia can affect respiratory, circulatory, and endocrine systems but is necessary for
certain experimental procedures such as echocardiography and blood sampling in small …

18F-FDG has been used to image mouse xenograft models with small-animal PET for
therapy response. However, the reproducibility of serial scans has not been determined. The …

Background Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a critical regulator of malignant
pleural effusion (MPE) in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Bevacizumab (BEV) and …