Inflammatory and immunopathological differences in brains of permissive and non-permissive hosts with Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection can be identified using ¹⁸F/FDG/PET-imaging

• Kang-wei Chang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work as first authors.

  Affiliations Neuroscience Research Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Laboratory Animal Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Lian-Chen Wang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work as first authors.

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Hung-Yang Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Parasitology and Tropical Diseases, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medical Science, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Tzu-Yuan Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Parasitology and Tropical Diseases, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medical Science, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Edwin En-Te Hwu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Danish National Research Foundation and Villum Foundation’s Center for Intelligent Drug Delivery and Sensing Using Microcontainers and Nanomechanics, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Po-Ching Cheng

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bonjovi@tmu.edu.tw

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Parasitology and Tropical Diseases, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Medical Science, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Center for International Tropical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1172-2485

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