Does muscle have the least protein content?

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The discussion centers on an experiment using pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to analyze the spin-spin relaxation time (T2) of various biological tissues: muscle, liver, fat, heart, cartilage, and bone marrow. The findings indicate that T2 increases in a specific order across these tissues, prompting inquiries into the underlying biological or physical properties that might explain this trend. Key considerations include the density and protein content of the tissues, as well as the molecular size variations. It is noted that fat exhibits efficient energy exchange, resulting in a shorter T2, while water, which is present in higher amounts in tissues like bone marrow, leads to longer T2 times. The ratio of water to fat in these tissues is suggested as a potential factor influencing the observed T2 values. The discussion emphasizes the importance of sample preparation and the specific measurements taken to understand the relationship between tissue composition and T2 relaxation times.
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I am in the middle of a physics experiment that has recently crossed over into biology...the details are not important, but what i found was that a certain property changed in this order as the following substances were scanned:

1. muscle
2. liver
3. fat
4. heart
5. cartilage
6. bone marrow

is there any biological or physical property (density, protein content, etc??) that would change in that order? e.g. does muscle have the least protein content and bone marrow the most? or vice versa? or is it maybe the size of the molecules that vary in that order?
 
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the details are important what are you measuring en what is your sample preparation¿
 
Its an experiment on pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and the factor that increases (roughly linearly for some reason) with muscle, liver...marrow is the spin spin relaxation time T2

so I placed small samples of each type of tissue, scanned them, found an average relaxation time and standard error for each tissue, and plotted them...

now my question is, why does T2 increase in that fashion for the biological samples...what is it about liver for instance that causes a higher T2 than muscle
 
Fat has a very efficient energy exchange and therefore it has a relatively short T2.
Water is less efficient than fat in the exchange of energy, and therefore it has a long T2 time
So, I would look at ratio of water to fat in these various tissues. I note that your "fatty tissue" has shorter T2 than your bone marrow which should have relatively more water. Just a thought--good luck.
 
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