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HIGH resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies on rat skeletal muscle have recently shown that cellular water produces an absorption line almost ten times as broad as the line width of pure water1. This suggests that these water molecules are at least partly bounded such that the proton correlation time is increased. Similar observations have also been made for deuterated water in skeletal muscle2 and for H2O in other tissues3–5. Our results further substantiate the notion that ordered water exists in biological tissue and rules out several criticisms of this interpretation.
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CHANG, D., HAZLEWOOD, C., NICHOLS, B. et al. Spin Echo Studies on Cellular Water. Nature 235, 170–171 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/235170a0
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