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Science 6 November 1981:
Vol. 214. no. 4521, pp. 660 - 662
DOI: 10.1126/science.7292005
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Science, Vol 214, Issue 4521, 660-662
Copyright © 1981 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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In vivo carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance studies of mammals

Alger JR, LO Sillerud, KL Behar, RJ Gillies, RG Shulman, RE Gordon, D Shae, and PE Hanley

Natural abundance carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonances (NMR) from human arm and rat tissues have been observed in vivo. These signals arise primarily from triglycerides in fatty tissue. Carbon-13 NMR was also used to follow, in a living rat, the conversion of C-1-labeled glucose, which was introduced into the stomach, to C-1-labeled liver glycogen. The carbon-13 sensitivity and resolution obtained shows that natural abundance carbon-13 NMR will be valuable in the study of disorders in fat metabolism, and that experiments with substrates labeled with carbon-13 can be used to study carbohydrate metabolism in vivo.


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