Net increase of lactate and glutamate concentration in activated human visual cortex detected with magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 7 tesla

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1076-1083

  Schaller, Benoît ^a   Mekle, Ralf ^b   Xin, Lijing ^a   Kunz, Nicolas ^b   Gruetter, Rolf ^a,b,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

In vivo 1H NMR spectroscopy; Lactate; Neurotrans mitters; Oxidative metabolism; Visual stimulation

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LACTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METABOLITE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879603781     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23194     Document Type: Article

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