PMID- 15356423 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20041029 LR - 20220129 IS - 0271-678X (Print) IS - 0271-678X (Linking) VI - 24 IP - 9 DP - 2004 Sep TI - Relationship between flow-metabolism uncoupling and evolving axonal injury after experimental traumatic brain injury. PG - 1025-36 AB - Blood flow-metabolism uncoupling is a well-documented phenomenon after traumatic brain injury, but little is known about the direct consequences for white matter. The aim of this study was to quantitatively assess the topographic interrelationship between local cerebral blood flow (LCBF) and glucose metabolism (LCMRglc) after controlled cortical impact injury and to determine the degree of correspondence with the evolving axonal injury. LCMRglc and LCBF measurements were obtained at 3 hours in the same rat from 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose and 14C-iodoantipyrine coregistered autoradiographic images, and compared to the density of damaged axonal profiles in adjacent sections and in an additional group at 24 hours using beta-amyloid precursor protein (beta-APP) immunohistochemistry. LCBF was significantly reduced over the ipsilateral hemisphere by 48 +/- 15% compared with sham-controls, whereas LCMRglc was unaffected, apart from foci of elevated LCMRglc in the contusion margin. Flow-metabolism was uncoupled, indicated by a significant 2-fold elevation in the LCMRglc/LCBF ratio within most ipsilateral structures. There was a significant increase in beta-APP-stained axons from 3 to 24 hours, which was negatively correlated with LCBF and positively correlated with the LCMRglc/LCBF ratio at 3 hours in the cingulum and corpus callosum. Our study indicates a possible dependence of axonal outcome on flow-metabolism in the acute injury stage. FAU - Chen, Szu-Fu AU - Chen SF AD - Academic Neurosurgery, Center for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, UK. FAU - Richards, Hugh K AU - Richards HK FAU - Smielewski, Piotr AU - Smielewski P FAU - Johnstrom, Peter AU - Johnstrom P FAU - Salvador, Raymond AU - Salvador R FAU - Pickard, John D AU - Pickard JD FAU - Harris, Neil G AU - Harris NG LA - eng GR - G0001237/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom GR - G9439390/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - J Cereb Blood Flow Metab JT - Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism JID - 8112566 RN - 0 (Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor) RN - 0 (Carbon Radioisotopes) RN - 0Z5B2CJX4D (Fluorodeoxyglucose F18) RN - IY9XDZ35W2 (Glucose) RN - T3CHA1B51H (Antipyrine) RN - V30V6H1QX4 (iodoantipyrine) SB - IM MH - Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor/metabolism MH - Animals MH - Antipyrine/*analogs & derivatives/metabolism MH - Autoradiography MH - Axons/*metabolism/pathology MH - Brain Injuries/*metabolism/pathology/*physiopathology MH - Carbon Radioisotopes/metabolism MH - Cerebrovascular Circulation/*physiology MH - Fluorodeoxyglucose F18/metabolism MH - Glucose/*metabolism MH - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted MH - Immunohistochemistry MH - Male MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley EDAT- 2004/09/10 05:00 MHDA- 2004/10/30 09:00 CRDT- 2004/09/10 05:00 PHST- 2004/09/10 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/10/30 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/09/10 05:00 [entrez] AID - 00004647-200409000-00008 [pii] AID - 10.1097/01.WCB.0000129415.34520.47 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2004 Sep;24(9):1025-36. doi: 10.1097/01.WCB.0000129415.34520.47.