Determination of the Glutamate—Glutamine Cycling Flux Using Two-Compartment Dynamic Metabolic Modeling is Sensitive to Astroglial Dilution
Open Access
- 3 September 2008
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
- Vol. 29 (1), 108-118
- https://doi.org/10.1038/jcbfm.2008.102
Abstract
Over the last decade 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy (13C MRS) combined with the infusion of [1-13C]glucose has been used to measure the cerebral rate of the glutamate—glutamine cycle ( Vcyc). However, the effect of the astroglial label dilution pathways on the accuracy and precision of the C MRS measurement of Vcyc has not been evaluated or realized. In this report, we use the numerical Monte Carlo method to study the effect of astroglial dilution on the reliability of extracting Vcyc using the neuronal-astroglial two-compartment metabolic model and [1-13C]glucose infusion. The results show that omission of the astroglial dilution flux leads to a large loss in the sensitivity of the glutamine turnover curve to Vcyc. When the measured isotopic dilution of cerebral glutamine is accounted for in the analysis, the value of Vcyc can be precisely and accurately determined.Keywords
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