List of Navon's Publications

Chemical and medical applications of NMR and MRI

• New NMR and MRI methods for the study of connective tissues (cartilage, tendon, blood vessels).



• Development of new methods for functional MRI (fMRI).



• Spectroscopic MRI of nerves.



• Methods for following thermal destruction of tumors.



• NMR studies of magnetic nano-particles.



• Binding of xenon atoms to proteins.

U. Eliav, H. Shinar and G. Navon,
The Formation of a Second Rank Tensor in ²³Na Double Quantum Filtered NMR as an Indicator for Order in a Biological Tissue.
J. Magn. Reson., 98, 223-229 (1992).

Y. Rubin and G. Navon,
Inhibition of Sodium Influx and Improved Preservation of Rat Hearts during Hypothermic Ischemia by Furosemide and Bumetanide: A ²³Na and ³¹P NMR Study.
J. Mol. Cel. Cardiol. 25, 1403-1411 (1993).

Y. Fraenkel, J.M. Gershoni and G. Navon,
NMR Analysis Reveals a Positively Charged Hydrophobic Domain as a Common Motif to Bound Acetylcholine and d-Tubocurarine.
Biochemistry 33, 644-650 (1994).

I. Ronen and G. Navon,
A New Method fo Proton Detection of H₂¹⁷O With Potential Application for Functional Imaging.
Magn. Reson. Med. 32, 789-793 (1994).

H. Ben Horin, M. Tassini, A. Vivi, G. Navon and O. Kaplan,
The Mechanism of Action of the Anti-neoplastic Drug Lonidamine -³¹P and ¹³ C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies.
Cancer Res. 55, 2814-2821 (1995).

G. Navon, Y.-Q. Song, T. Room, S. Appelt, R. E. Taylor and A. Pines,
Enhancement of Solution NMR and MRI with Laser-Polarized Xenon.
Science, 271, 1848-1891 (1996).

A. Bifone, Y.-Q. Song, R. Seydoux, R.E. Taylor, B. M. Goodson, T. Pietrass, T. Budinger, G. Navon and A. Pines,
NMR of Laser-Polarized Xenon in Human Blood.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93, 12932-12936 (1996).

T. Kushnir, T. Knubovets, Y. Itzchak, U. Eliav, M. Sadeh, L. Rapoport, E. Kot and G. Navon,
In Vivo Sodium NMR Studies of Myotonic Dystrophy.
Magn. Reson. Med. 37, 192-196 (1997).

Y-Q. Song, B.M. Goodson, R.E. Taylor, D.D. Laws, G. Navon, and A. Pines,
Selective Enhancement of NMR Signals for a-Cyclodextrin with Laser-Polarized Xenon.
Angew. Chem., 109, 2464-2466 (1997); Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 36, 2368-2370 (1997).

Y. Sharf, Y. Seo, U. Eliav, S. Akselrod, and G. Navon,
Mapping Strain Exerted on Blood Vessel Walls Using Deuterium Double-Quantum-Filtered MRI.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 95, 4108-4112 (1998).

I. Ronen, H. Merkle, K. Ugurbil and G. Navon,
Imaging of H₂¹⁷O Distribution in the Brain of a Live Rat by Using Proton Detected ¹⁷O MRI.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 12934-12939 (1998).

L. Tsoref H. Shinar, Y. Seo, U. Eliav and G. Navon,
Proton Double Quantum Filtered MRI - A New Method for Imaging Ordered Tissues.
Magn. Reson. Med., 40, 720-726 (1998).

Y. Seo, H. Shinar and G. Navon,
Anisotropic and Restricted Diffusion of Water in Sciatic Nerve - a ²H Double Quantum-Filtered NMR Study.
Magn. Reson. Med. 42, 461-466 (1999).

Y. Seo, K. Ikoma, H. Takamiya, Y. Kusaka, L. Tsoref, U. Eliav, H. Shinar and G. Navon,
¹H Double-Quantum-Filtered MR Imaging as a New Tool for Assessment of Healing of the Ruptured Achilles Tendon.
Magn. Reson. Med. 42, 884-889 (1999).

G. Navon, H. Shinar, U. Eliav and Y. Seo,
Multiquantum Filters and Order in Tissues (Review).
NMR Biomed 14, 112-132 (2001).

U. Eliav and G. Navon,
Multiple Quantum Filtered NMR Studies of the Interaction Between Collagen and Water in Tendon.
J. Am. Chem Soc., 124, 3125-3132 (2002).

H. Shinar, Y. Seo, K. Ikoma, Y. Kusaka, U. Eliav, and G. Navon,
Mapping the Fiber Orientation in Articular Cartilage at Rest and Under Pressure Studied by ²H Double Quantum Filtered MRI.
Magn. Reson. Med. 48, 322-330 (2002).

G. Navon, H. Shinar, U. Eliav,
Double Quantum Filtered NMR in Ordered Biological Tissues,
Encyclopedia of NMR, Vol. 9, pp 374-383 (2002).

A. Neufeld, U. Eliav, G. Navon,
New MRI method with Contrast Based on the Macromolecular Characteristics of Tissues,
Magn. Reson. Med. 50, 229-234 (2003).

N. Askenasy and G. Navon,
Measurements of intracellular volumes by ⁵⁹Co and ²H/¹H NMR and their physiological applications, (Review),
NMR Biomed, 18, 104-110 (2005).

D. Carasso, U. Eliav and G. Navon,
NMR parameters for monitoring coagulation of liver tissue.
Magn. Reson. Med. 54, 1082-1086 (2005).