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Neuroenergetic Response to Prolonged Cerebral Glucose Depletion after Severe Brain Injury and the Role of Lactate

Pierre Magistretti, Jocelyne Bloch, Luc Pellerin

Lactate may represent a supplemental fuel for the brain. We examined cerebral lactate metabolism during prolonged brain glucose depletion (GD) in acute brain injury (ABI) patients monitored with cerebral microdialysis (CMD). Sixty episodes of GD (defined a ...

Mary Ann Liebert2015

Metabolic Alterations Associated to Brain Dysfunction in Diabetes

João Miguel das Neves Duarte

From epidemiological studies it is known that diabetes patients display increased risk of developing dementia. Moreover, cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are also accompanied by impaired glucose homeostasis and insulin signalling. Although ...

Int Soc Aging & Disease2015

Brain Glucose Transport and Phosphorylation Under Acute Insulin-Induced Hypoglycemia in Mice: An 18F-FDG PET Study

Rolf Gruetter, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Malte Alf

We addressed the questions of how cerebral glucose transport and phosphorylation change under acute hypoglycemia and what the underlying mechanisms of adaptation are. Methods: Quantitative 18F-FDG PET combined with the acquisition of real-time arterial inp ...

2013

Mathematical Modeling of Brain Energy Metabolism, Measured with PET and MRS in Rodents

Bernard Lanz

Positron emission tomography (PET) and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) are two biomedical measurement techniques developed in the end of the XXth century, which drastically improved the amount of accessible information available in vivo. PET ...

EPFL2012

Characterization of cerebral glucose dynamics in vivo with a four-state conformational model of transport at the blood-brain barrier

Rolf Gruetter, João Miguel das Neves Duarte

Determination of brain glucose transport kinetics in vivo at steady-state typically does not allow distinguishing apparent maximum transport rate (Tmax) from cerebral consumption rate. Using a four-state conformational model of glucose transport, we show t ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Labeled acetate as a marker of astrocytic metabolism

Pierre Magistretti

Astrocytes have various important roles in brain physiology. To further elucidate the details of astrocytic functions under normal and pathological states, astrocyte-specific measurements are mandatory. For studying brain energy metabolism, the use of the ...

2011

Biophysical Basis of the Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Signal in the Rat Brain

Nicolas Kunz

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) can be used in-vivo in a vast array of applications, such as anatomical imaging (magnetic resonance imaging, MRI), localized chemical composition characterization (magnetic resonance spectroscopy, MRS), cellular structure a ...

EPFL2010

Steady-state brain glucose transport kinetics re-evaluated with a four-state conformational model

Rolf Gruetter, Hongxia Lei, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Carole Poitry-Yamate

Glucose supply from blood to brain occurs through facilitative transporter proteins. A near linear relation between brain and plasma glucose has been experimentally determined and described by a reversible model of enzyme kinetics. A conformational four-st ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2009

Recent Advances in Brain-Computer Interfaces

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jean-Marc Vesin, Ulrich Hoffmann

A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a communication system that translates brain activity into commands for a computer or other devices. In other words, a BCI allows users to act on their environment by using only brain activity, without using peripheral n ...

2007

Effect of chronic hypoglycaemia on glucose concentration and glycogen content in rat brain: A localized 13C NMR study

Rolf Gruetter, Hongxia Lei

While chronic hypoglycaemia has been reported to increase unidirectional glucose transport across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and to increase GLUT1 expression at the endothelium, the effect on steady-state brain d-glucose and brain glycogen content is cu ...

Wiley-Blackwell2006

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