Regional blood flow in ethylnitrosourea‐induced brain tumors
- 1 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of Neurology
- Vol. 14 (2), 189-201
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.410140206
Abstract
Regional blood flow was measured in experimental brain tumors using iodoantipyrine labeled with carbon 14 and quantitative autoradiography. A total of fifteen oligodendrogliomas, sixteen mixed gliomas, one astrocytoma, one ependymoma, and three malignant schwannomas were studied in 9 rats. The mean tumor blood flows for all glioma classifications were similar, averaging 45 ± 3 (standard error of the mean) ml · hg−1 · min−1. Flow was fairly uniform within individual oligodendrogliomas and there was no apparent correlation between blood flow and tumor size of location. The mixed gliomas were larger than the oligodendrogliomas and had a wider range of blood flow. Small focal areas of necrosis were observed in 7 mixed gliomas, and low flows were usually measured in these regions; these flows were not always the lowest regional values measured within the mixed gliomas or total group of tumors, however. Small tumor regions with increased vascularity, frequently with endothelial cell proliferation, were observed in oligodendrogliomas and to a greater extent in mixed gliomas; these regions were correlated with small elevations in blood flow (10 to 15 ml · hg−1 · min−1) in comparison with surrounding tumor tissue. Brain adjacent to tumor usually had higher blood flows than that in tumor periphery. Hemispheric differences in blood flow related to the site of primary tumor growth were not observed.This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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