Khaled Abdel-Aziz1,
Bhavana Solanky1, Marios C. Yiannakas1, Claudia Angela
M. Wheeler-Kingshott2, Alan Thompson1, Olga Ciccarelli3
1NMR
Research Unit, Queen Square MS Centre, UCL, London, United Kingdom; 2NMR
Research Unit, Queen Square MS Centre, Department of Neuroinflammation, UCL,
London, United Kingdom; 3NMR Research Unit, Queen Square MS
Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
Several studies have examined the changes in brain metabolites quantified with MRS as a consequence of normal aging but no such studies have yet been performed in the spinal cord. This study has examined the effect of age on commonly quantified spinal cord metabolites.