Proton Relaxation Studies of Water Compartmentalization in a Model Neurological System

Proton relaxation measurements from 18 crayfish abdominal nerve cords (a model of human CNS) are used to demonstrate that the transverse (though not the longitudinal) relaxation can be decomposed into four reproducible components that, in conjunction with optical and electron microscopy of the morphology, can be assigned to three water compartments within the cord and possibly to the mobile lipid protons. The assignments are extraaxonal water protons (32 ± 9% and mean T2 = 600 ± 200 ms), axonal water protons (59 ± 12% and mean T2 = 200 ± 30 ms), intramyelinic water protons (7 ± 4% and mean T2 = 50 ± 20 ms), and finally an unsubstantiated assignment of lipid protons (2.0 ± 2.0% and mean T2 = 7 ± 4 ms).© 1992 Academic Press,Inc.

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