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McDougal, D.B. et al.

Use of nonradioactive 2-deoxyglucose to study compartmentation of brain glucose metabolism and rapid regional changes in rate.

A method is presented for measuring rapid changes in the rate of glucose phosphorylation in mouse brain with nonradioactive 2-deoxyglucose (DG). After times as short as 1 min after DG injection, the mouse is frozen rapidly, and selected brain regions are analyzed enzymatically for DG, 2-deoxyglucose 6-phosphate ( DG6P), and glucose. The rate of glucose phosphorylation can be directly calculated from the rate of change in DG6P, the average levels of DG and glucose, and a constant derived from direct comparison of the rate of changes in glucose and DG6P after decapitation. Experiments with large brain samples provided evidence for a 2% per min loss of DG6P and at least two compartments differing in their rates of glucose metabolism, one rapidly entered by DG with glucose phosphorylation almost double that of average brain and another more slowly entered with a much lower phosphorylation rate. The method is illustrated by changes in phosphorylation within 2 min after injection of a convulsant or an anesthetic and over a 48-min time course with and without anesthesia. The sensitivity of the analytical methods can be amplified as much as desired by enzymatic cycling. Consequently, the method is applicable to very small brain samples. Examples are given for regions with volumes of 5 x 10(-4) microliters, but studies with samples as small as single large cell bodies are feasible.[1]

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Use of nonradioactive 2-deoxyglucose to study compartmentation of brain glucose metabolism and rapid regional changes in rate. McDougal, D.B., Ferrendelli, J.A., Yip, V., Pusateri, M.E., Carter, J.G., Chi, M.M., Norris, B., Manchester, J., Lowry, O.H. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1990) [Pubmed]

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