FACTORS INFLUENCING EXIT OF SUBSTANCES FROM CEREBROSPINAL-FLUID INTO DEEP CERVICAL LYMPH OF THE RABBIT
FACTORS INFLUENCING EXIT OF SUBSTANCES FROM CEREBROSPINAL-FLUID INTO DEEP CERVICAL LYMPH OF THE RABBIT
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DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1983.sp014731
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
WESTROP, RJ
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作者:
BRADBURY, MWB;WESTROP, RJ
Experiments were made to determine the main route by which radioiodinated albumin reaches deep cervical lymph from (CSF) in the anesthetized rabbit. Other factors, influencing drainage through this pathway, were investigated. After single injection of [125I]albumin into a lateral ventricle of control rabbits, a mean of 14.8% of the radioactivity lost from brain CSF was recovered during 6 h in the lymph of the cannulated jugular trunk of 1 side. Injection of kaolin into the olfactory fossa or sealing of the cribriform plate with cyanoacrylate glue reduced the recovery of [125I]albumin to 3.3 and 1.9%, respectively, at 2-3 wk after the procedure designed to block the cribriform plate. This confirms the traditional view that the major connections between CSF and deep cervical lymph is via prolongations of subarachnoid space around the olfactory nerves, leading into the interstitial spaces of the nasal submucosa. The dense lymphatic plexus in this tissue is known to drain into the retropharyngeal (deep cervical) lymph nodes. Constant infusion of artificial CSF into a lateral ventricle at 10 .mu.l/min or 30 .mu.l/min, in order to approximately double or quadruple flow through the system respectively, decreased the recovery of intraventricular [125I]albumin to 8.1 and 6.9%, respectively. The increased CSF pressures induced forced relatively more radioactivity from inside the skull into the CSF spaces of the spinal cord. Maintaining the rabbit prone but at 20.degree. from the horizontal caused recoveries of [125I]albumin in lymph of 17.6% (head-up position and 6.6% head-down). The amounts of radioactivity in nose and spinal cord markedly increased and decreased respectively in the head-down position. They changed in the opposite directions in the head-up position. The amounts of [51Cr]EDTA, [125I]metrizamide and [14C]inulin in deep cervical lymph were negligible after intraventricular injection. Estimations of the ratio of [51Cr]EDTA/[125I]albumin in various tissues on the pathway into lymph, together with measurements of arterio-venous fluxes across the retropharyngeal nodes, indicate that [51Cr]EDTA passed from CSF/lymph into blood within both the nose and the lymph nodes. After intraventricular injection, the recovery of [14C]methylated carbonic anhydrase (MW 30,000) in deep cervical lymph was 4.7% at 6 h, whereas that of [14C]methylated myosin (MW 200,000) was 2.4%. The very low recovery of [14C]myosin relative to [125]albumin in lymph was associated with a large accumulation of the [14C]myosin in the retropharyngeal lymph nodes. The results confirm the importance of a pathway from cribriform plate, through nasal submucosa to deep cervical lymph in drainage of CSF in the rabbit. Molecules up to and including inulin in size (MW 5,000) return to blood by crossing microvessel walls in the nose and lymph nodes, whereas macromolecules may pass through the pathway to post-nodal lymph or be taken up by cells en route.