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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Magnetic resonance imaging of glycogen using its magnetic coupling with water.

Yang Zhou, Peter C M van Zijl, Xiang Xu, Jiadi Xu, Yuguo Li, Lin Chen, Nirbhay N Yadav

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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48citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yang ZhouRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205; yzhou120@jhu.edu nyadav@jhu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3920-3070
Peter C M van ZijlRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Xiang XuRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Jiadi XuRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Yuguo LiRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Lin ChenRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Nirbhay N YadavRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205; yzhou120@jhu.edu nyadav@jhu.edu.
Kennedy Krieger Institute · US

Funding

Novel Approaches for CEST Labeling, Detection, Quantification and TranslationR01EB015032 · NIBIB · HUGO W. MOSER RES INST KENNEDY KRIEGER · PI VAN ZIJL, PETER CM · 2011 to 2019
$3.9M
Development and Translation of D-glucose as an MRI Contrast Agent for Multiple SclerosisR00EB026312 · NIBIB · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI XU, XIANG · 2020 to 2022
$747k
Sensitivity enhanced MRI imaging of receptor binding in breast cancerR21EB025295 · NIBIB · HUGO W. MOSER RES INST KENNEDY KRIEGER · PI YADAV, NIRBHAY NARAYAN · 2018 to 2020
$646k
NIBIB NIH HHS R00 EB026312NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB015032NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB025295
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycogen plays a central role in glucose homeostasis and is abundant in several types of tissue. We report an MRI method for imaging glycogen noninvasively with enhanced detection sensitivity and high specificity, using the magnetic coupling between glycogen and water protons through the nuclear Overhauser enhancement (NOE). We show in vitro that the glycogen NOE (glycoNOE) signal is correlated linearly with glycogen concentration, while pH and temperature have little effect on its intensity. For validation, we imaged glycoNOE signal changes in mouse liver, both before and after fasting and during glucagon infusion. The glycoNOE signal was reduced by 88 ± 16% (

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GlycogenAnimalsFastingLiverMagnetic Resonance ImagingMiceProtonsWaterGlycogenProtonsWaterfastingglucagonliversaturation transferZ-spectrum

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PMID32001509
PMCPMC7022182
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