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Title:
Detection by Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Elevated Lactate Concentration in Serums from Patients with Malignant Tumors

Language:English
Type:Article
Authors:Akira Ohsaka, Kenichi Yoshikawa and Tyoku Matuhasi
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Journal:Japanese journal of medical science & biology
ISSN:0021-5112
Volume:32
Number:5
Year:1979
Actual year:1979
Pages:305–309
URL:http://www.journalarchive.jst.go.jp/japanese/jnlabstract_ja.php?cdjournal=yoken1952&cdvol=32&noissue=5&startpage=305
Abstract:
Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) spectra of the serum specimens from patients with malignant tumors were compared with those from presumably healthy persons. We found that 87% of serum specimens from the patients yielded a common proton signal, which was ascribed to the methyl protons of lactic acid; whereas only 9% of serum specimens from the healthy persons tested gave this signal. On the basis of these results we concluded that the lactate level in the serum can be used as a criterion for the diagnosis of cancer in humans and that the determination of lactate concentration in the serum is easily performed by means of 1H-NMR.
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1979
"Detection by Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Elevated Lactate Concentration in Serums from Patients with Malignant Tumors"
Akira Ohsaka, Kenichi Yoshikawa and Tyoku Matuhasi, Japanese journal of medical science & biology, 32(5), 305–309 (1979)
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