| Musculoskeletal MR Spectroscopy Room A207 |
| 11:00 22. TCA Cycle Flux Measurements in Human Skeletal Muscle, V.P. Lebon, S. Dufour, K. Falk Petersen, B.M. Jucker, D.L. Rothman and G.I. Shulman, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. |
| 11:12 23. Assessment of Mitochondrial Energy Coupling In Vivo Using a Novel ¹³C/³¹P NMR Approach, B.M. Jucker, S. Dufour, J. Ren, X. Cao, S.F. Previs, B. Underhill, K. Cadman and G.I. Shulman, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. |
| 11:24 24. Characterisation of Muscle Metabolism and Function by MRI and MRS in Inflammatory Myopathy, J.G. Cea, D. Bendahan, D.N. Manners, D. Hilton-Jones, R. Lodi, P. Styles and D.J. Taylor, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK and University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. |
| 11:36 25. Very Low Levels of the mtDNA A3243G Mutation Associated with Mitochondrial Dysfunction in vivo, R. Lodi, D.J. Taylor, D.T. Brown, D. Manners, P. Styles and P.F. Chinnery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy and The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. |
| 11:48 26. ³¹P NMR Study of Bioenergetics in the Rat Hindlimb in Response to VEGF121 Gene Therapy, X. Wang, K.W. Fishbein, M.C. Capogrossi and R.G.S. Spencer, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA. |
| 12:00 27. Contractions and Glycolysis are Closely Coupled in Skeletal Muscle: A 1H and ³¹P MRS Study, A.C. Hsu and M.J. Dawson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. |
| 12:12 28. In Vivo 31P MRS Evidences a Paradoxical Reduction of ATP Cost of Contraction Associated with Muscular Fatigue in Rat Gastrocnemius Muscle, B. Giannesini, D. Bendahan, M. Izquierdo, Y. Le Fur and P.J. Cozzone, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille, France. |
| 12:24 29. Sequential ¹³C- and ¹H-MRS Measurements in Human Skeletal Muscle: Influence of Diet on Recovery Rates of Glycogen and Intramyocellular Lipids (IMCL), C. Boesch, R. Kreis and J. Décombaz, University Bern, Bern, Switzerland and Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne Switzerland. |
| 12:36 30. Regional Difference in Intramyocellular Lipids Detected by ¹H Spectroscopic Imaging at 4T: Enhanced Spectral/Spatial Resolution, J-H. Hwang, J.W. Pan, H.P. Hetherington and D.T. Stein, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA and Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY, USA. |
| 12:48 31. Orientation Dependence is the Rule, Not the Exception in ¹H-MR Spectra of Skeletal Muscle: The Case of Carnosine, R. Kreis and C. Boesch, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. |