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METABOLIC BRAIN DISEASE
Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages 123-131Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/BF02679979
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organic acids; energy metabolism; cerebral cortex; glutaric acid; glutaric acidemia type I
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The present study investigated the effects of glutaric acid (GA), which predominantly accumulates in glutaric acidemia type I (GA-I), on some in vitro parameters of energy metabolism in cerebral cortex of rats. We first evaluated CO2 production from [U-C-14] acetate, as well as ATP levels in brain of young Wistar rats. The effect of the acid on the activities of the respiratory chain complexes were also investigated. GA was tested at final concentrations ranging from 0.5 to 5.0 mM. GA significantly reduced brain CO2 production by 50 % at the concentrations of 0.5 to 3.0 mM, ATP levels by 25 % at the concentration of 3.0 mM, succinate:cytochrome C oxireductase (complex II plus CoQ plus complex III) by 25 % at 5 mM concentration, and NADH:cytochrome C oxireductase (complex I plus CoQ plus complex III) by 25 % at 2.5 and 5 mM concentrations. The results strongly indicate that GA impairs brain energy production. If these effects also occur in humans, it is possible that they may contribute to the neuropathology of patients affected by GA-I.
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