Thursday, March 26, 2009
Researchers from the Centre for Medical Systems Biology (CMSB) have published in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine the first in vivo two dimensional (2D) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) study of the mouse brain. MRS is a non-invasive tool that can be used to measure the chemical composition of tissues in vivo and characterise functional metabolic processes in different parts of the body.
The authors applied this specialised technique to acquire a comprehensive neurochemical composition of the living mouse brain and identify multiple brain metabolites in a single measurement.
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