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The flexible surface-coil-type resonator (FSCR) operating in a 700 MHz microwave electron spin resonance (ESR) system was applied to measure the nitroxide radicals at a specific area in rats. The FSCR was composed of a single-turn coil with a diameter of 5 mm and two flexible coaxial lines of 450 mm in length. For an endoscope-like application, the FSCR was inserted into the rectum of the rat and sequential changes in the ESR signals of the intravenously injected nitroxide radical (4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-piperidine-1-oxyl; TEMPOL or 3-carbamoyl-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-pyrrolidine-1-yloxy; carbamoyl-PROXYL) were measured. The ESR signal intensity of the nitroxide decreased according to first-order kinetics. For a stethoscope-like application, the FSCR was placed at several sites on the abdominal skin of the rats receiving a subcutaneous injection of carbamoyl-PROXYL, and diffusion and/or metabolism of the radical in the skin was observed.
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Lin, Y., Yokoyama, H., Ishida, Si. et al. In vivo electron spin resonance analysis of nitroxide radicals injected into a rat by a flexible surface-coil-type resonator as an endoscope- or a stethoscope-like device. MAGMA 5, 99–103 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02592239
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