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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging in the Study of Experimental Liver Diseases
Author(s) -
Ratner A. V.,
Carter E. A.,
Pohost G. M.,
Wands J. R.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1986.tb05083.x
Subject(s) - steatosis , ethionine , nuclear magnetic resonance , nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy , chemistry , carbon tetrachloride , fatty liver , in vivo , necrosis , triglyceride , in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy , pathology , magnetic resonance imaging , medicine , biochemistry , biology , radiology , cholesterol , physics , microbiology and biotechnology , disease , organic chemistry , amino acid , methionine
We are investigating potential noninvasive new strategies for the assessment of liver injury, steatosis, and hepatic tumor development These techniques employ nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging and spectroscopy. Accordingly, several experimental animal models of liver injury and steatosis produced in rats by ethanol, azaserine, L‐ethionine, carbon tetrachloride, and D‐galactosamine. Ethanol and L‐ethionine induce acute steatosis without necrosis, whereas azaserine, carbon tetrachloride, and D‐galactosamine are known to produce steatosis with varying degrees of hepatic necrosis. Triglyceride content and protein spin relaxation times were measured. T, values were analyzed by using an inversion recovery technique at eight different r values (20 msec to 2.50 sec) and T, by Carr‐Purce)l‐Meibloom‐Gill pulse sequences with 10 spin echoes (4–40 msec). We also performed NMR imaging studies on controls and ethanol‐induced steatosis using a 60‐MHz Technicare 8‐cm bore superconducting system. Results of these experiments indicate that varying degrees of steatosis produce striking changes in T 2 without inducing changes in T 2 whereas necrosis superimposed on steatosis produces T, changes as well. Thus, these NMR spectroscopy and imaging studies demonstrated that steatosis may be clearly defined in vitro and in vivo.