Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Biochemical phosphates observed using hyperpolarized 31P in physiological aqueous solutions

  • Atara Nardi-Schreiber,
  • Ayelet Gamliel,
  • Talia Harris,
  • Gal Sapir,
  • Jacob Sosna,
  • J. Moshe Gomori,
  • Rachel Katz-Brull

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00364-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Real-time monitoring of phosphate metabolism and distribution in the live body without ionizing radiation is highly desirable. Here, the authors show dissolution-dynamic nuclear polarization technology can enable nuclear magnetic resonance detection of hyperpolarized 31P of important biological phosphates in aqueous solutions.