Proton MRS of oral creatine supplementation in rats. Cerebral metabolite concentrations and ischemic challenge

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 309-314

  Michaelis, Thomas ^a   Wick, Markus ^a   Fujimori, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Matsumura, Akira ^a,b   Frahm, Jens ^a  

^a Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

1H NMR; Brain metabolites; Cerebral ischemia; Cerebral metabolism; Creatine; Creatine supplementation; Neuroprotection; Proton MRS; Rat brain

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; GLUCOSE; INOSITOL; LACTOSE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CREATINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLYCOLYSIS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PROTONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032827582     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1492(199908)12:5<309::AID-NBM572>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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