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Clinical Applications and Potential of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
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Clinical Applications and Potential of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 1195

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Jimin Ren

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Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States
Interests: Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; brain metabolism; skeletal muscle metabolism; chemical exchange

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy has been increasingly used as a non-invasive modality in clinical applications. This Special Issue will collect recent development of MRS and MRSI in clinical research including, but not limited to, the assessment of ATP energy metabolism, redox state, (de)myelination, neurodegeneration, inflammation, ischemia and oxygenation, cellularity and atrophy, fat infiltration, mineral metabolism, kinetic and dynamic processes, metabolic pathways and intermediates, organ preservation and transplant viability, sex hormonal effects, exercise and fatigue, muscle fiber typing, transmembrane processes, membrane fluidity, mitochondrial (dys)function, and biomarkers of various diseases. Major body organs include brain, heart, liver, kidney, prostate, bone marrow, subcutaneous tissue, and skeletal muscle. Original work on 31P and 13C MRS and collaborative contributions from multiple institutes and using different modalities are especially encouraged.

Dr. Jimin Ren
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • magnetic resonance spectroscopy
  • metabolite
  • lipids and phospholipids
  • brain
  • skeletal muscle

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A Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study on Polarity Subphenotypes in Bipolar Disorder
by Georgios D. Argyropoulos, Foteini Christidi, Efstratios Karavasilis, Peter Bede, Georgios Velonakis, Anastasia Antoniou, Ioannis Seimenis, Nikolaos Kelekis, Nikolaos Smyrnis, Olympia Papakonstantinou, Efstathios Efstathopoulos and Panagiotis Ferentinos
Diagnostics 2024, 14(11), 1170; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14111170 - 31 May 2024
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Although magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) has provided in vivo measurements of brain chemical profiles in bipolar disorder (BD), there are no data on clinically and therapeutically important onset polarity (OP) and predominant polarity (PP). We conducted a proton MRS study in BD polarity [...] Read more.
Although magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) has provided in vivo measurements of brain chemical profiles in bipolar disorder (BD), there are no data on clinically and therapeutically important onset polarity (OP) and predominant polarity (PP). We conducted a proton MRS study in BD polarity subphenotypes, focusing on emotion regulation brain regions. Forty-one euthymic BD patients stratified according to OP and PP and sixteen healthy controls (HC) were compared. 1H-MRS spectra of the anterior and posterior cingulate cortex (ACC, PCC), left and right hippocampus (LHIPPO, RHIPPO) were acquired at 3.0T to determine metabolite concentrations. We found significant main effects of OP in ACC mI, mI/tNAA, mI/tCr, mI/tCho, PCC tCho, and RHIPPO tNAA/tCho and tCho/tCr. Although PP had no significant main effects, several medium and large effect sizes emerged. Compared to HC, manic subphenotypes (i.e., manic-OP, manic-PP) showed greater differences in RHIPPO and PCC, whereas depressive suphenotypes (i.e., depressive-OP, depressive-PP) in ACC. Effect sizes were consistent between OP and PP as high intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were confirmed. Our findings support the utility of MRS in the study of the neurobiological underpinnings of OP and PP, highlighting that the regional specificity of metabolite changes within the emotion regulation network consistently marks both polarity subphenotypes. Full article
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17β-Estradiol Effects in Skeletal Muscle: A 31P MR Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) Study of Young Females during Early Follicular (EF) and Peri-Ovulation (PO) Phases
by Jimin Ren, Luis Rodriguez II, Talon Johnson, Anke Henning and Yasin Y. Dhaher
Diagnostics 2024, 14(3), 235; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14030235 - 23 Jan 2024
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The natural variation in estrogen secretion throughout the female menstrual cycle impacts various organs, including estrogen receptor (ER)-expressed skeletal muscle. Many women commonly experience increased fatigue or reduced energy levels in the days leading up to and during menstruation, when blood estrogen levels [...] Read more.
The natural variation in estrogen secretion throughout the female menstrual cycle impacts various organs, including estrogen receptor (ER)-expressed skeletal muscle. Many women commonly experience increased fatigue or reduced energy levels in the days leading up to and during menstruation, when blood estrogen levels decline. Yet, it remains unclear whether endogenous 17β-estradiol, a major estrogen component, directly affects the energy metabolism in skeletal muscle due to the intricate and fluctuating nature of female hormones. In this study, we employed 2D 31P FID-MRSI at 7T to investigate phosphoryl metabolites in the soleus muscle of a cohort of young females (average age: 28 ± 6 years, n = 7) during the early follicular (EF) and peri-ovulation (PO) phases, when their blood 17β-estradiol levels differ significantly (EF: 28 ± 18 pg/mL vs. PO: 71 ± 30 pg/mL, p < 0.05), while the levels of other potentially interfering hormones remain relatively invariant. Our findings reveal a reduction in ATP-referenced phosphocreatine (PCr) levels in the EF phase compared to the PO phase for all participants (5.4 ± 4.3%). Furthermore, we observe a linear correlation between muscle PCr levels and blood 17β-estradiol concentrations (r = 0.64, p = 0.014). Conversely, inorganic phosphate Pi and phospholipid metabolite GPC levels remain independent of 17β-estradiol but display a high correlation between the EF and PO phases (p = 0.015 for Pi and p = 0.0008 for GPC). The robust association we have identified between ATP-referenced PCr and 17β-estradiol suggests that 17β-estradiol plays a modulatory role in the energy metabolism of skeletal muscle. Full article
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