PMID- 29561214 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200526 LR - 20200901 IS - 1559-7016 (Electronic) IS - 0271-678X (Print) IS - 0271-678X (Linking) VI - 39 IP - 9 DP - 2019 Sep TI - Glucose transporter 2 mediates the hypoglycemia-induced increase in cerebral blood flow. PG - 1725-1736 LID - 10.1177/0271678X18766743 [doi] AB - Glucose transporter 2 (Glut2)-positive cells are sparsely distributed in brain and play an important role in the stimulation of glucagon secretion in response to hypoglycemia. We aimed to determine if Glut2-positive cells can influence another response to hypoglycemia, i.e. increased cerebral blood flow (CBF). CBF of adult male mice devoid of Glut2, either globally (ripglut1:glut2(-)(/)(-)) or in the nervous system only (NG2KO), and their respective controls were studied under basal glycemia and insulin-induced hypoglycemia using quantitative perfusion magnetic resonance imaging at 9.4 T. The effect on CBF of optogenetic activation of hypoglycemia responsive Glut2-positive neurons of the paraventricular thalamic area was measured in mice expressing channelrhodopsin2 under the control of the Glut2 promoter. We found that in both ripglut1:glut2(-)(/)(-) mice and NG2KO mice, CBF in basal conditions was higher than in their respective controls and not further activated by hypoglycemia, as measured in the hippocampus, hypothalamus and whole brain. Conversely, optogenetic activation of Glut2-positive cells in the paraventricular thalamic nucleus induced a local increase in CBF similar to that induced by hypoglycemia. Thus, Glut2 expression in the nervous system is required for the control of CBF in response to changes in blood glucose concentrations. FAU - Lei, Hongxia AU - Lei H AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4065-9331 AD - 1 AIT, Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM-AIT), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. AD - 2 Department of Radiology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. FAU - Preitner, Frederic AU - Preitner F AD - 3 Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. AD - 4 Mouse Metabolic Evaluation Facility, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. FAU - Labouebe, Gwenael AU - Labouebe G AD - 3 Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. FAU - Gruetter, Rolf AU - Gruetter R AD - 1 AIT, Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM-AIT), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. AD - 2 Department of Radiology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. AD - 5 Department of Radiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. FAU - Thorens, Bernard AU - Thorens B AD - 3 Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20180321 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 (Blood Glucose) RN - 0 (Glucose Transporter Type 2) RN - 0 (Slc2a2 protein, mouse) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Blood Glucose/*metabolism MH - Brain/blood supply/metabolism MH - *Cerebrovascular Circulation MH - Glucose Transporter Type 2/*metabolism MH - Hypoglycemia/blood/*metabolism MH - Male MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL PMC - PMC6727137 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Glut2 OT - cerebral blood flow OT - glut2 brain cells OT - hypoglycemia OT - optogenetic EDAT- 2018/03/22 06:00 MHDA- 2020/05/27 06:00 PMCR- 2020/09/01 CRDT- 2018/03/22 06:00 PHST- 2018/03/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/05/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/03/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1177_0271678X18766743 [pii] AID - 10.1177/0271678X18766743 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2019 Sep;39(9):1725-1736. doi: 10.1177/0271678X18766743. Epub 2018 Mar 21.