Non-invasive quantification of brain glycogen absolute concentration

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1414-1423

  Morgenthaler, Florence D ^a,b   Van Heeswijk, Ruud B ^a   Xin, Lijing ^a   Laus, Sabrina ^c   Frenkel, Hanne ^a   Lei, Hongxia ^b   Gruetter, Rolf ^a,b,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

13C; Insulin; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Turnover

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN; INSULIN; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE INFUSION; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; IN VIVO STUDY; ISOTOPIC ENRICHMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STEADY STATE; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; GLYCOGEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 55849127507     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2008.05717.x     Document Type: Article

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