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JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
Volume 31, Issue 9, Pages 1863-1873Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2011.62
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CBF; focal ischemia; MCAO; peri-infarct depolarization; spreading depression
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- USPHS [NS03346, NS07141]
- Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
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Peri-infarct depolarizations (PIDs) contribute to the evolution of focal ischemic lesions. Proposed mechanisms include both increased metabolic demand under conditions of attenuated perfusion and overt vasoconstrictive responses to depolarization. The present studies investigated the relative contributions of metabolic and perfusion effects to PID-associated infarct expansion during middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat. The initial distribution of ischemic depolarization (ID) was established within minutes after MCA occlusion at a cerebral blood flow threshold of similar to 40 mL/100 g per minute, with expansion of the depolarized territory during 3 hours detected in half of the animals. Peri-infarct depolarizations were associated with transient metabolic responses, comparable to those observed after spreading depression, with no evidence of cumulative energy failure after multiple transient depolarizations during 1 hour. Speckle contrast imaging of PID-associated flow transients documented prominent distal hyperemic flow responses that became progressively attenuated in regions of already impaired perfusion, with modest propagated flow decreases more proximal to the ischemic core. However, sporadic Pips were associated with persistent decrements in perfusion, increasing tissue volume below the threshold for energy failure, ID and infarction. These latter, comparatively rare, events can account for the pattern of stepwise infarct expansion in this model. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (2011) 31 1863-1873; doi:10.1038/jcbfm.2011.62; published online 27 April 2011
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