Publication Date:
1982-07-16
Description:
External detection of the annihilation radiation produced by water labeled with oxygen-15 was used to measure cerebrovascular permeability and cerebral blood flow in six rhesus monkeys. Use of oxygen-15 also permitted assessment of cerebral metabolic rate in two of the monkeys. Amitriptyline produced a dose-dependent, reversible increase in permeability at plasma drug concentrations which are therapeutic for depressed patients. At the same concentrations the drug also produced a 20 to 30 percent reduction in cerebral metabolic rate. At higher doses normal autoregulation of cerebral blood flow was suspended, but responsivity to arterial carbon dioxide was normal.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Preskorn, S H -- Raichle, M E -- Hartman, B K -- HL-13851/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- NS-06833/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS-17252/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Jul 16;217(4556):250-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7089562" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amitriptyline/*pharmacology
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Animals
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Blood Pressure/drug effects
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Blood-Brain Barrier/drug effects
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Brain/drug effects/*metabolism
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Capillaries/physiology
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Cerebrovascular Circulation/*drug effects
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Kinetics
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Macaca mulatta
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Permeability
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Regional Blood Flow/drug effects
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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