著者
Ying Yang Kuanghui Xu Xiaofei Chen Jianping Ding Junping Shi Jie Li
出版者
Japanese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
雑誌
Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences (ISSN:13473182)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.mp.2021-0168, (Released:2022-06-07)
参考文献数
46
被引用文献数
3

Purpose: The Multi-echo Dixon (ME-Dixon) is a non-invasive quantitative MRI technique to diagnose non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). In this study, the hydrogen proton MR spectroscopy (1H-MRS) was used as a reference to explore the accuracy of the ME-Dixon technique in evaluating hepatic steatosis in NAFLD patients after ingesting formulated food and its correlation with changes in clinical indicators.Methods: Twenty-seven patients with NAFLD were enrolled. Fifteen patients completed 12 weeks of treatment with prebiotics and dietary fiber. In addition, abdominal MRI scans and blood tests were performed before and after treatment. The MRI-proton density fat fraction (MRI-PDFF) and MRS-PDFF were measured using the ME-Dixon and 1H-MRS techniques. The Bland–Altman method and Pearson correlation analysis were used to test the consistency of the two techniques for measuring the liver fat content and the changed values. Besides, correlation analysis was conducted between the MRI-PDFF value and metabolic indicators.Results: In the PDFF quantification of 42 person-times and the monitoring of the PDFF change in 15 patients under treatment, there was a good consistency and a correlation between MRI and MRS. At baseline, MRI-PDFF was positively correlated with insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR), fatty liver index (FLI), and liver enzymes. After treatment, the changes in MRI-PDFF were positively correlated with the recovery degree of FLI and liver enzymes.Conclusion: ME-Dixon has a good consistency and a correlation with MRS in quantifying the liver fat content and monitoring the treatment effect, which may be used as an accurate indicator for clinical monitoring of changes in the liver fat content.
著者
Chang-Peng YANG Zhi-Rong NONG Jian-Lin LU Lu LU Jian-Shou XU Yun-Zhe HAN Ying-Jie LI Shuji FUJITA
出版者
社団法人 日本食品科学工学会
雑誌
Food Science and Technology Research (ISSN:13446606)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.10, no.1, pp.75-78, 2004 (Released:2007-05-18)
参考文献数
27
被引用文献数
2 10

Occurrence of polyphenol oxidase (PPO, o-diphenol: oxygen oxidoreductase, EC.1.10.3.1) in the fruits of nine cultivars of banana (Musa spp.) commercially cultivated in China was investigated. All banana fruits peel and pulp tested had PPO activity, and all PPO strongly oxidized dopamine and 3-hydroxytyramine (tyramine). However, very weak and/or no oxidative activity was recognized on such trihydroxybenzenes as phloroglucinol and gallic acid. Similar substrate specificity of PPOs toward phenolic compounds was detected in the pulp and peel of all banana cultivars tested. The specific PPO activities toward dopamine for pulp were between 5.11 and 25.72, and those of peel were between 6.75 and 26.86 units/mg protein. However, PPO activities toward dopamine in the pulp and peel of AAA and AA genome group bananas were higher than those of ABB and AAB groups. The changes of pulp and peel PPO activities during fruit development were also determined in the three banana cultivars. During this development a remarkable decrement in pulp and peel PPO activities was found in all banana cultivars used.