The Fate of Glucose in Different Parts of the Rabbit Brain

The fate of uniformly 14C labelled glucose has been followed by a quantitative application of the radio paper-chromatographic technique in different parts of the rabbit brain-hypo­-thalamus medialis anterior, hypothalamus medialis posterior, hypothalamus lateralis anterior, cerebral cortex, cerebell...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences Biological sciences, 1960-06, Vol.152 (948), p.283-289
Hauptverfasser: Chain, Ernst Boris, Larsson, S., Pocchiari, F.
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Zusammenfassung:The fate of uniformly 14C labelled glucose has been followed by a quantitative application of the radio paper-chromatographic technique in different parts of the rabbit brain-hypo­-thalamus medialis anterior, hypothalamus medialis posterior, hypothalamus lateralis anterior, cerebral cortex, cerebellar cortex—and in the optic chiasma. Qualitatively the metabolic pattern of glucose was similar in all the different parts of the brain which were studied. The glucose disappearing from the medium after 60 min of incubation was accounted for as lactic acid, CO2, alanine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, γ-aminobutyric acid and glutamine. However, in the cerebral cortex significantly greater quantities of alanine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid and glutamine were found than in any of the other tissues. The hypothalamus formed more γ-aminobutyric acid from glucose than the cerebral and cerebellar cortex. The inclusion of potassium in the medium augmented the oxygen uptake and the production of radioactive glutamine in all the different parts of the brain and the production of radioactive CO2 in the cerebral cortex. On the other hand, the presence of potassium diminished the production of radioactive CO2 in the hypothalamus but had no effect on CO2 production in the cerebellar cortex.
ISSN:0962-8452
0080-4649
0950-1193
1471-2954
2053-9193
DOI:10.1098/rspb.1960.0038