Cerebral pyruvate carboxylase flux is unaltered during bicuculline-seizures.
Cerebral pyruvate carboxylase flux is unaltered during bicuculline-seizures.
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荷包牡丹碱癫痫发作期间,大脑丙酮酸羧化酶通量没有改变。
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10.1002/jnr.20311
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2005
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Behar,KevinL
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Patel,AnantB;Chowdhury,GolamMI;deGraaf,RobinA;Rothman,DouglasL;Shulman,RobertG;Behar,KevinL
Glutamine synthesis in the astroglia reflects the sum of neurotransmitter cycling (glutamate and-aminobutyric acid [GABA]) and de novo synthesis (anaplerosis), the latter catalyzed by pyruvate carboxylase. Previous studies have shown that the glutamate plus GABA cycling flux is correlated strongly with neuronal activity; however, the relationship between pyruvate carboxylase flux and neuronal activity is not known. In this study, pyruvate carboxylase flux was assessed during intravenous infusion of [2-13C] glucose using localized 1H-[13C] NMR spectroscopy at 7 Tesla in vivo in halothaneanesthetized and ventilated adult Wistar rats during 85 min of bicuculline-induced seizures (1 mg/kg, intravenously) and in nontreated controls. During seizures, concentrations of lactate, alanine, glutamine, GABA, and succinate increased whereas glutamate and aspartate decreased such that the decrease in glutamate plus aspartate equaled the increase in glutamine plus GABA. Pyruvate carboxylase flux was assessed by the sum of [2-13C] and [3-13C] of glutamine and glutamate (Glx23) labeling during [2-13C] glucose infusion. During seizures the initial rate of Glx23 synthesis (0.069 0.013 mol/g/min) was not significantly different (P 0.68) from that of the controls (0.059 0.010 mol/g/min), indicating that anaplerotic flow through pyruvate carboxylase was unaltered. Intense neuronal activation of seizures did not seem to increase anaplerosis through pyruvate carboxylase, despite the substantial increase in neuronal activity and glutamate/glutamine cycling shown in a previous study (Patel et al., 2004b).© 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.