| | Selective isotopic labeling of spin labels for electron spin resonance spectroscopy - Patent 5431901 |
 | | The linear increase in signal height with increasing concentration of perdeuterated spin label, at low concentrations of perdeuterated spin label, is eventually overcome by the self-broadening effect of the perdeuterated spin label at higher concentrations of perdeuterated spin label, therefore yielding a linear decrease of the signal height at higher perdeuterated spin label concentrations. |
 | | Therefore, given the sensitivity of the spectral width to perdeuterated spin label concentration, and the difficulty of reliably determining the contribution of perdeuterated spin label concentrations from heterogeneous samples, a reliable and accurate quantitative measurement of oxygen tension from actively metabolizing heterogeneous tissue is difficult. |
 | | Overall, the selectively isotopically-labeled nitroxide spin labels of the present invention increase the sensitivity of the ESR spectrum of a particular environment by maximizing the sensitivity of the T.sub.2 spectrum line-broadening method to oxygen tension and by optimizing the sensitivity of the spectrometer signal for a given concentration of spin label. |
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