The following is excerpted from the article From Singing to Speaking, Stroke Connection Magazine, September/October 2005 (Last science update March 2013) It's amazing to see stroke survivors who've lost the ability to speak suddenly produce accurate words when singing familiar songs.
Inject Thallium-201 at the midpoint of the adenosine injection infusion (i.e., after the first three minutes of adenosine injection) â¢. Thallium-201 is physically compatible with adenosine injection and may be injected directly into the adenosine injection infusion set.
Adenosine has been suggested to be an inhibitory neuromodulator and is thought to be a mediator of hypoxia-induced anapyrexia (1, 97). Adenosine is a purine nucleoside synthesized within cells and released into the extracellular fluid during conditions of hypoxic stress (98).