Direct in vivo measurement of glycine and the neurochemical profile in the rat medulla oblongata

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1097-1102

  Xin, Lijing ^a   Gambarota, Giulio ^a   Duarte, João M N ^b   Mlynárik, Vladimír ^a   Gruetter, Rolf ^a,b,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glycine; Medulla oblongata; Neurochemical profile; NMR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGIONS; GLYCINE; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH DENSITY; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; LOW LEVEL; LOWER BOUNDS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MYO-INOSITOL; NEUROCHEMICAL PROFILES; NMR SPECTROSCOPY; SPIN ECHO; STRIATUM; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

BIOMOLECULES; BRAIN; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); METABOLISM; METABOLITES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SUGARS;

AMINO ACIDS;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; INOSITOL; TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METABOLITE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; GLYCINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 79251514306     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1537     Document Type: Article

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