A study on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging assessment of the anti-aging efficacy of BMMSCs in the macaque brain
Pinghui Li, Yaxi Jiang, Xinghua Pan, Xiangqing Zhu, Baoci Shan, Tingting Pan, Shici Yang, Qinghua Li, Ting Li, Jie Li, Lilin Chen, Rui He, Fei Xie, Gaohong Zhu · 2026
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Pinghui Li and fourteen co-authors wrote this 2026 study on whether stem cells can slow brain aging, judged by scans in monkeys. Bone marrow stem cells are a leading hope in anti-aging research, but claims need hard measures. The team scanned the brains of young and old macaques with a sugar-tracing PET method, then treated only the old group with the cells.
Old monkeys' brains showed a larger metabolic volume than young ones, and that volume shrank after treatment. Standard uptake measures, though, did not shift clearly. Fine texture measures in the scans separated old from young well and served as strong markers. Detailed mapping found better sugar use in regions for hearing and memory-related processing after the cells. The authors say the scan-plus-texture approach gives a repeatable yardstick for testing anti-aging therapies in primates.
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| CREATOR | Pinghui Li, Yaxi Jiang, Xinghua Pan, Xiangqing Zhu, Baoci Shan, Tingting Pan, Shici Yang, Qinghua Li, Ting Li, Jie Li, Lilin Chen, Rui He, Fei Xie, Gaohong Zhu |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |