Synchrotron radiation based X-ray fluorescence shows changes in the elemental composition of the human substantia nigra in aged brains

Metallomics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 1522-1531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Dawid Surowka ◽  
Pawel Wrobel ◽  
Dariusz Adamek ◽  
Edyta Radwanska ◽  
Magdalena Szczerbowska-Boruchowska
Author(s):  
A. J. Tousimis

The elemental composition of amino acids is similar to that of the major structural components of the epithelial cells of the small intestine and other tissues. Therefore, their subcellular localization and concentration measurements are not possible by x-ray microanalysis. Radioactive isotope labeling: I131-tyrosine, Se75-methionine and S35-methionine have been successfully employed in numerous absorption and transport studies. The latter two have been utilized both in vitro and vivo, with similar results in the hamster and human small intestine. Non-radioactive Selenomethionine, since its absorption/transport behavior is assumed to be the same as that of Se75- methionine and S75-methionine could serve as a compound tracer for this amino acid.


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