Longitudinal 1H MRS of rat forebrain from infancy to adulthood reveals adolescence as a distinctive phase of neurometabolite development

NMR in Biomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 683-691

  Morgan, Jonathan J ^a   Kleven, Gale A ^b   Tulbert, Christina D ^a   Olson, John ^a   Horita, David A ^a   Ronca, April E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Brain; Development; Longitudinal; MRS; NMR; Rat; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; AUTOMATED PROCESSING; CONCENTRATION CHANGE; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENT; GLYCEROPHOSPHOCHOLINE; LONGITUDINAL; MRS;

AMINO ACIDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RATS; SPECTROSCOPY;

BRAIN;

CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; TAURINE; ASPARTIC ACID; DIPEPTIDE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; N ACETYL 1 ASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID; N-ACETYL-1-ASPARTYLGLUTAMIC ACID; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLITE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RAT; THALAMUS; AGING; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; DIPEPTIDES; GLUTAMIC ACID; INOSITOL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; PHOSPHOCREATINE; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TAURINE;

EID: 84876798055     PISSN: 09523480     EISSN: 10991492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nbm.2913     Document Type: Article

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