Glucose is the long-established, obligatory fuel for brain that fulfills many critical functions,
including ATP production, oxidative stress management, and synthesis of neurotransmitters …

Maintaining blood glucose concentration within a relatively narrow range through periods of
fasting or excess nutrient availability is essential to the survival of the organism. This is …

Purpose To investigate the kinetics of 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18 F-FDG) by positron
emission tomography (PET) in multiple organs and test the feasibility of total-body …

A discussion of the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes mellitus must start with a review of
mechanisms involved in the maintenance of normal glucose homeostasis in the basal or …

The mechanism (s) and site (s) of the insulin resistance were examined in nine normal-
weight noninsulin-dependent diabetic (NIDD) subjects. The euglycemic insulin clamp …

From over 100 children studied with 2‐deoxy‐2 {18F} fluoro‐d‐glucose and positron
emission tomography we selected 29 children (aged 5 days to 15.1 years) who had suffered …

Diseases are biological processes, and molecular imaging with positron emission
tomography (PET) is sensitive to and informative of these processes. This is illustrated by …

The search for novel image contrasts has been a major driving force in the magnetic
resonance (MR) research community, in order to gain further information on the body's …

• Using positron emission tomography, we studied cerebral glucose metabolism in drug-free,
age-and sex-matched, righthanded patients with unipolar depression (n= 10), bipolar …

• We used positron emission tomography to investigate local cerebral metabolic rates for
glucose (LCMRG1c) in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder before and after …