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A 7Li NMR study of visibility, spin relaxation, and transport in normal human erythrocytes.

The behavior of the lithium (Li) ion in normal human erythrocytes has been studied by 7Li NMR. The uptake of Li into the cells was followed as a function of solution conditions, temperature, hematocrit, and blood age using dysprosium tripolyphosphate shift reagent. Under our conditions the uptake of Li increases with increasing hematocrit and blood age. For packed cells the extracellular 7Li spin-lattice relaxation time was only slightly longer than the intracellular relaxation time. Thus, T1 may not be useful for separate observation of intra- and extracellular Li in vivo. The intra- and extracellular T2s were substantially shorter than the corresponding T1s. Also, the intracellular T2 was considerably shorter than that for the extracellular compartment, suggesting that T2 may provide a noninvasive handle for observation of intracellular Li. Nuclear Overhauser enhancements could be observed for both extra- and intracellular 7Li, confirming that dipolar coupling to 1H is a contributing relaxation mechanism. The 7Li NMR visibility was essentially 100% at high Li concentrations, decreasing to about 84% at 1 mM Li. Based on time course studies of the invisibility, and a comparison of NMR and inductively coupled plasma results, it appears that the invisibility of the intra- and extracellular compartments for packed cells is the same. Although a 23Na double-quantum signal could be observed for red blood cells, no double-quantum signal was observed for 7Li.[1]

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  1. A 7Li NMR study of visibility, spin relaxation, and transport in normal human erythrocytes. Gullapalli, R.P., Hawk, R.M., Komoroski, R.A. Magnetic resonance in medicine : official journal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine / Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (1991) [Pubmed]
 
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