Harderian gland adenectomy: A method to eliminate confounding radio-opacity in the assessment of rat brain metabolism by 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D- glucose positron emission tomography

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 42-45

  Brammer, David W ^a,c   Riley, Janet M ^a   Kreuser, Steven C ^a   Zasadny, Kenneth R ^a   Callahan, Michael J ^a   Davis, Michael D ^b  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUPRENORPHINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE; TRACER; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UPTAKE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HARDER GLAND; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; METABOLIC BALANCE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FRONTAL LOBE; HARDERIAN GLAND; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 36048965143     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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