MR Spectroscopy of Cerebral Energetics and Neurotransmission

16:00      542.    Quantitative Modelling of H3 Hydrogen Turnover in (2-¹³C) Glutamate and (2-¹³C) Glutamine During (1-¹³C) Glucose Metabolism in the Adult Rat Brain  - not available

Alejandra Sierra¹, Luis Lopes da Fonseca², Tiago Brandao Rodrigues¹, Marina Benito¹, Paloma Ballesteros³, Sebastian Cerdan¹

¹IIB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain; ²Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Lisbon, Portugal; ³UNED, Madrid, Spain
 

16:12      543.    Suppression of Glial Glutamine Release to the ECF Studied in Vivo by N-15 NMR and Microdialysis/HSQC

Keiko Kanamori¹, Brian D. Ross¹

¹Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, California, USA
 

16:24      544.    Glucose Transport Kinetics Upregulates in Chronic Hypoglycemic Rats: An in Vivo ¹³C MRS Approach  - not available

Hongxia Lei¹, Rolf Gruetter¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
 

16:36      545.    MR Determination of Neurochemical Profile and TCA Cycle Flux Reveals Concomitant Alterations of GABA/Glutamine Metabolism and Oxidative Pathway in a Primate Model of Huntington's Disease

Fawzi Boumezbeur¹, Laurent Besret², Julien Valette¹, Martine Guillermier², Francoise Vaufrey¹, Philippe Hantraye¹, Gilles Bloch¹, Vincent Lebon¹

¹CEA-SHFJ, Orsay, France; ²URA CEA-CNRS 2210, Orsay, France
 

16:48      546.    In Vivo Detection of Altered GABA Levels Following Acute Administration of Antidepressant/Antipanic Drug Phenelzine
 - not available

Jehoon Yang¹, Jun Shen¹

¹National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
 

17:00      547.    Localized ¹H MR Spectroscopy in the alert Monkey at 7 Tesla  - not available

Josef Pfeuffer¹, Christoph Juchem¹, Hellmut Merkle², Nikos K. Logothetis¹

¹Max Planck Institute for biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, D, Germany; ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
 

17:12      548.    Metabolic Alterations in Rat Somatosensory Cortex During Forepaw Stimulation Measured by ¹H-MR Spectroscopy at 11.7 T

Su Xu¹, Jehoon Yang¹, Charles Q. Li¹, Wenjun Zhu¹, Jun Shen¹

¹National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
 

17:24      549.    Regional Difference of GABA Concentration in the Human Brain Measured by MEGA-PRESS with LCModel Fitting on Clinical 3T Apparatus

Masafumi Harada¹, Hitoshi Kubo¹, Minoru Sakama¹, Masako Minato¹, Hiromu Nishitani¹, Tsuyoshi Matsuda²

¹University of Tokushima, Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan; ²GE-Yokogawa Medical Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
 

17:36      550.    A Shim Mapping Method for Spectroscopic Imaging of the Mouse Brain at 9.4T

Naoyuki Miyasaka¹, Kan Takahashi¹, Jullie W. Pan¹, Hoby P. Hetherington¹

¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New  York, USA
 

17:48      551.    MR Spectroscopic Measurement of Inhomogeneous Temperature Distribution in the Rat Brain

Mingming Zhu^1,2, Joseph J. H. Ackerman^1,2, Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy, ^1,2

¹Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; ²Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA