Considerations in the determination by microdialysis of resting extracellular amino acid concentrations and release upon spinal cord injury

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作者
Xu, GY [1 ]
McAdoo, DJ [1 ]
Hughes, MG [1 ]
Robak, G [1 ]
De Castro, R [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Texas, Med Branch, Inst Marine Biomed, Dept Human Biol Chem & Genet, Galveston, TX 77555 USA
关键词
blood-brain barrier; excitotoxicity; depletion; interstitial amino acid concentrations;
D O I
10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00063-3
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
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071006 ;
摘要
The following issues are further addressed: (1) Is there considerable leakage of amino acids from the circulation into the space around microdialysis probes, or are amino acid concentrations naturally much higher in the interstitial space than is generally thought? (2) Do observed high interstitial concentrations or depletion of substances in the intracellular space by microdialysis affect release measurements upon spinal cord injury? Amino acid concentrations around microdialysis fibres in the spinal cord of rats were found to approach those in the circulation and to be much higher than interstitial concentrations previously estimated in the CNS. However, much lower concentrations of amino acids were derived in the hippocampus by analogous experiments. Considerable Evans Blue/albumin leaked from the circulation into the interstitial space in the spinal cord immediately after fibre insertion. However, this movement diminished considerably by 4 h later, demonstrating substantial resealing of the blood-brain barrier, at least to large molecules. There is either substantial damage-induced movement of amino acids from the circulation into the dialysis zone after insertion of a microdialysis probe, or there is much less impediment to movement of amino acids across the blood-brain barrier in the spinal cord than in the brain. At low flow rates through the fibre, adding concentrations of amino acids to the inside of the fibre equal to the concentrations around the fibre to prevent their depletion by removal through the microdialysis fibre did not affect increases in concentrations of amino acids in microdialysates following injury. Thus the high concentrations of amino acids present around microdialysis fibres following their insertion do not seem to disturb measurements of amino acid release upon spinal cord injury. (C) 1998 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
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