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1980; Feinendegen et al. 1981). The separate signals from the iodine pool were then used to compute the rate of release of the iodine tracer in the ROI as the signal of transfer of the labeled fatty acid from the lipid pool into rapid degradation in the mitochondria. In diseased heart muscle, tracer release may include fatty acid back diffusion or transport into the blood circulation. If needed, these two pathways can be separately observed, as described below in the discussion of the use of two labeled isomerically related substrates.
Depending on the type and labeling of fatty acid, only a certain fraction of the accumulating tracer becomes incorporated into the myocardial lipid pool (Feinendegen 1993, 2000). Degradation of fatty acids by beta-oxidation in the mitochondria is faster than the rate of fatty acid supply from the lipid pool for degradation. Upon full degradation, the free tracers, whether carbon or terminally bound iodine, quickly leave the degradation site via the circulating blood. The rate of tracer disappearance from the ROI thus mirrors the rate of entrance of the indicator into the degradation pathway.
1979; Reivich et a1. 1979; Delbeke et a1. 2002). Various applications are presented in this book (see Chaps. 17, 18, 20, 27). Regarding glucose metabolism in the human brain, one may summarize that activated neurons in the brain trigger an increased amount of glucose into metabolism mainly in the glial cells adjacent to neurons. This appears intimately connected with an increase in local cerebral blood perfusion. Changes in both local glucose consumption and blood perfusion allow one to localize neuronal stimulation in the living brain in specified motor, sensory, and mental activities.