Metastatic Brain Tumors: Local Blood Flow and Capil- lary Permeability
Metastatic Brain Tumors: Local Blood Flow and Capil- lary Permeability
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转移性脑肿瘤:局部血流和毛细血管通透性
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2006
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R. Blasberg
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R. Blasberg
Local cerebral blood flow and capillary permeability measured by the I4C-iodoantipyrine (Sakurada et al, Am J Physiol234H 59, 1978) and 14C-alpha aminoisobutyric acid (AIB) (Blasberg e t al, Neurology 28:363, 1978) methods, was studied in anesthetized rats with Walker 256 metastatic brain tumors (Ushio e t al, Ann Neurol 2:20, 1977). Neighboring brain sections were cut for autoradiography and histologic staining. A greater reduction in blood flow through the larger tumor masses (0.1 to 0.2 mligndmin) in comparison to the smaller lesions (0.5 to 0.8 ml/gm/ min) was observed, and the reduction in flow extended beyond the larger tumor margins into neighboring cortex (0.4 to 0.9 mvgndmin). Cortical blood flow contralateral to the tumors was 1.3 ml/gm/min. Differences in flow within the larger tumor masses were observed but a sharp demarcation corresponding to the border between "necrotic" and "viable" cells of the tumor was not seen. The permeability oftumor capillaries, expressed as a blood-to-brain transfer rate constant for AIB, demonstrated considerable variability within different tumor regions and ranged from 2 to 100 times as high as that of normal brain (2 x 10-3 min-'). A clear and consistent difference in capillary permeability corresponding to necrotic and variable tumor regions was not seen. The tumor margins were sharply defined histologically. However, the permeability gradient a t the tumor margin and adjacent brain tissue varied and occasionally extended several millimeters into adjacent brain. Tumor foci smaller than 1 mm in diameter demonstrated no changes in either blood flow or capillary permeability, suggesting that a critical tumor size appears to be necessary before these changes occur.