Anesthetics Affect the Cerebral Metabolic Response to Circulatory Catecholamines
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 36 (6), 1941-1946
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1981.tb10818.x
Abstract
Whether the effect of i.v. infusion of either epinephrine or norepinephrine on cerebral metabolic rate of O2 (CMRO2) in the dog was modified by different anesthetics was studied. Infusions of either epinephrine or norepinephrine at rates of 0.1-0.25 .mu.g .cntdot. kg-1 .cntdot. min-1 reversibly increased the CMRO2 by 17-23% during anesthesia with cyclopropane 20% and nitrous oxide 50% in O2; infusions at rates of 0.1-25.0 .mu.g .cntdot. kg-1 .cntdot. min-1 had no effect in dogs anesthetized with other inhalational or i.v. agents. Cyclopropane/nitrous oxide also increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier to Evan''s blue dye whereas the other anesthetics tested did not. Epinephrine and norepinephrine crossed the blood-brain barrier during cyclopropane anesthesia, accounting for the increase in CMRO2. Cyclopropane may have increased blood-brain barrier permeability by a direct effect on endothelial cells or by affecting central adrenergic systems. Epinephrine or norepinephrine may increase CMRO2 either by a direct action on neuronal receptors or via metabolically coupled synaptic events.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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