• Neuroscience · Nov 1983

    Net transport of glucose from blood to cerebrospinal fluid in the cat.

    • G M Hochwald, M Gandhi, and S Goldman.
    • Neuroscience. 1983 Nov 1; 10 (3): 1035-40.

    AbstractThe net transport of glucose from blood to the cerebrospinal fluid compartment of cats was measured by ventriculocisternal perfusion to determine over a large range of serum glucose concentrations the influence of serum glucose levels and their changes on the net transport rate. Changes in serum glucose levels were followed within minutes by corresponding changes in cerebroventricular effluent fluid glucose concentration. At mean values of serum glucose concentration of 6.2 mM and cerebrospinal fluid formation rate of 24.3 microliter/min, the net glucose influx rate was 1.6 mmol/min. The effluent fluid-to-serum glucose concentration ratio was 0.25 and decreased when serum glucose was greater than 11.1 mM. The rate of glucose transport from blood to effluent fluid during ventricular perfusion was saturable, and approached a maximum of 3.5 mumol/min at serum glucose levels above 22 mM. From the cerebrospinal fluid formation and net glucose influx rates the calculated glucose concentration of nascent cerebrospinal fluid was 6.5 mM and higher than the corresponding serum glucose of 5.6 mM. It is concluded that during perfusion over a wide range of serum glucose concentrations, a saturable mediated glucose transport mechanism can be demonstrated. Changes in serum glucose are rapidly reflected in corresponding effluent fluid glucose levels. From effluent fluid-to-serum glucose concentration ratios and calculations of the glucose in newly formed cerebrospinal fluid, the technique, however, overestimates the glucose influx rates at normal serum glucose levels.

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