“…Positron emission tomography (PET), serving as the representative molecular imaging modality, enables noninvasive visualization of molecular changes during biological processes in vivo by utilizing radiolabeled molecules . PET imaging with [ 18 F]fluoro-2-deoxyglucose ( 18 F-FDG), a glucose analog, has been used to detect subtle glucose metabolic alterations in vivo in a wide range of neurological diseases. , In this study, significantly higher 18 F-FDG uptake was observed in the ipsilateral ischemic brain area in the HPBZs-pretreated group than in the saline-pretreated MCAO group (Figure a,c, P < 0.05), suggesting that HPBZs pretreatment ameliorated cerebral glucose metabolic damage. Twenty-four hours after 18 F-FDG PET imaging, rat brains were extracted, sliced, and stained with 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC).…”