NMR spectra were obtained for the water soluble components [27] (link) of erythrocytes taken from 18 kidney transplant patients (up to 9 time points from pre-op to 7 days after surgery).
One-dimensional NMR spectra were measured at 499.97 MHz on a Varian Unity Inova 500 spectrometer at 20°C, using a standard PRESAT pulse sequence. For all samples a relaxation delay of ca. 9 s (three times the longest T1) was applied between scans to allow the spins to fully relax, with 256 transients collected into 16384 data points and a spectral width of 6000 Hz.
An exponential line broadening of 0.5 Hz was applied to each free induction decay (FID) and zero filling to 32768 points was carried out, followed by Fourier transformation. Phase and baseline corrections were carried out using ACD/Labs 12.0 (Advanced Chemistry Development Inc., Toronto, Canada) and chemical shifts were referenced to the lactate doublet at 1.33 ppm.