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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages 754-762Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn1902
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- NINDS NIH HHS [NS38073, NS30007] Funding Source: Medline
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Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is a self-propagating wave of cellular depolarization that has been implicated in migraine and in progressive neuronal injury after stroke and head trauma. Using two-photon microscopic NADH imaging and oxygen sensor microelectrodes in live mouse cortex, we find that CSD is linked to severe hypoxia and marked neuronal swelling that can last up to several minutes. Changes in dendritic structures and loss of spines during CSD are comparable to those during anoxic depolarization. Increasing O-2 availability shortens the duration of CSD and improves local redox state. Our results indicate that tissue hypoxia associated with CSD is caused by a transient increase in O-2 demand exceeding vascular O-2 supply.
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