Effects of acetazolamide on cerebral acid-base balance
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Applied Physiology
- Vol. 65 (1), 422-427
- https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1988.65.1.422
Abstract
Acetazolamide (AZ) inhibition of brain and blood carbonic anhydrase increases cerebral blood flow by acidifying cerebral extracellular fluid (ECF). This ECF acidosis was studied to determine whether it results from high PCO2, carbonic acidosis (accumulation of H2CO3), or lactic acidosis. Twenty rabbits were anesthetized with pentobarbital sodium, paralyzed, and mechanically ventilated with 100% O2. The cerebral cortex was exposed and fitted with thermostatted flat-surfaced pH and PCO2 electrodes. Control values (n = 14) for cortex ECF were pH 7.10 +/- 0.11 (SD), PCO2 42.2 +/- 4.1 Torr, PO2 107 +/- 17 Torr, HCO3- 13.8 +/- 3.0 mM. Control values (n = 14) for arterial blood were arterial pH (pHa) 7.46 +/- 0.03 (SD), arterial PCO2 (PaCO2) 32.0 +/- 4.1 Torr, arterial PO2 (PaO2) 425 +/- 6 Torr, HCO3- 21.0 +/- 2.0 mM. After intravenous infusion of AZ (25 mg/kg), end-tidal PCO2 and brain ECF pH immediately fell and cortex PCO2 rose. Ventilation was increased in nine rabbits to bring ECF PCO2 back to control. The changes in ECF PCO2 then were as follows: pHa + 0.04 +/- 0.09, PaCO2 -8.0 +/- 5.9 Torr, HCO3(-)-2.7 +/- 2.3 mM, PaO2 +49 +/- 62 Torr, and changes in cortex ECF were as follows: pH -0.08 +/- 0.04, PCO2 -0.2 +/- 1.6 Torr, HCO3(-)-1.7 +/- 1.3 mM, PO2 +9 +/- 4 Torr. Thus excess acidity remained in ECF after ECF PCO2 was returned to control values. The response of intracellular pH, high-energy phosphate compounds, and lactic acid to AZ administration was followed in vivo in five other rabbits with 31P and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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