Research Article

PET Study of Sphingosine-1-phosphate Receptor 1 Expression in Response to S. aureus Infection

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MicroPET imaging of S1PR1 activity in S aureus-infected mice. (a) Representative sagittal microPET images of [18F]TZ4877 in the hind limb of mice. The tracer uptake was relatively low in the hind limb muscle with a SUV of ~1.5 in sham mice. Comparing with sham mice, the tracer uptake was significantly higher in the hind limb of infected mice; (b) time-activity curves showed that the tracer uptake in infected mice was significantly higher than sham mice; (c) the average tracer uptake in the hind limb muscle from 30 to 50 min of the PET scan showed a ~39% increase of SUV in infected mice with a value of 0.0082. Data represent the , for each group.
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