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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 252: H504-H512, 1987;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 252, Issue 3 504-H512, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Cerebral circulation, metabolism, and blood-brain barrier of rats in hypocapnic hypoxia

T. Beck and J. Krieglstein

The effects of hypoxic hypoxia on physiological variables, cerebral circulation, cerebral metabolism, and blood-brain barrier were investigated in conscious, spontaneously breathing rats by exposing them to an atmosphere containing 7% O2. Hypoxia affected a marked hypotension, hypocapnia, and alkalosis. Cortical tissue high-energy phosphates and glucose content were not affected by hypoxia, glucose 6-phosphate, lactate, and pyruvate levels were significantly increased. Blood-brain barrier permeability, regional brain glucose content and lumped constant were not changed by hypoxia. Local cerebral glucose utilization (LCGU) rose by 40-70% of control values in gray matter and by 80-90% in white matter. Under hypoxia, columns of increased and decreased LCGU were detectable in cortical gray matter. Local cerebral blood flow (LCBF) increased by 50-90% in gray matter and by up to 180% in white matter. Coupling between LCGU and LCBF in hypoxia remained unchanged. The data suggest a stimulation of glycolysis, increased glucose transport into the cell, and increased hexokinase activity. The physiological response of gray and white matter to hypoxia obviously differs. Uncoupling of the relation between LCGU and LCBF does not occur.


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