关键词:
BASAL FOREBRAIN
SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA
CORTICAL BLOOD FLOW
CORTICAL PO2
CORTICAL PCO2
AGING
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
FISCHER 344 RAT
CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW REGULATION
HELIUM CLEARANCE
PHYSOSTIGMINE
INTRINSIC CHOLINERGIC INNERVATION
摘要:
Cholinergic projections from the basal forebrain are capable of influencing local cortical blood flow (CoBF). The effect of age on this influence was investigated by measuring CoBF and tissue gas partial pressures (PtO2, PtCO2) by mass spectrometry in conscious young adult (2-4 months) and aged (22-28 months) Fischer 344 rats. Electrical stimulation (50 mu A) of the substantia innominata (SI) increased frontal (+ 100.9%) and parietal (+ 28.4%) CoBF in young rats, but the effects were less in aged rats (frontal, + 48.6%, P < 0.05;parietal, + 18.9%, difference N.S.). Frontal PtO2 was increased in young but not aged rats (P < 0.01.). During standard hypercapnia, changes in CoBF, PtO2 and PtCO2 did not differ between young and aged rats. Under physostigmine infusion (0.15 mg/kg/h, i.v.), the CoBF increases to SI stimulation were approximately doubled in both cortices, in young and aged rats, and PtO2 increases were also significantly greater. However, frontal PtO2 increases were significantly smaller in aged (+ 7.6%) than in young (32.7%) rats, as were frontal PtCO2 reductions. We conclude: (i) the influence of the SI on frontal CoBF and PtO2 is substantially reduced with age;(ii) although physostigmine treatment potentiates this influence in both groups, the beneficial effects are relatively limited for aged rats.