Mitochondrial activity and brain functions during cortical depolarization

Avraham Mayevsky; Judith Sonn

doi:10.1117/12.823909

4 March 2009 Mitochondrial activity and brain functions during cortical depolarization

Avraham Mayevsky, Judith Sonn

Proceedings Volume 7280, Seventh International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine; 728002 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.823909
Event: Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings, 2008, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Cortical depolarization (CD) of the cerebral cortex could be developed under various pathophysiological conditions. In animal models, CD was recorded under partial or complete ischemia as well as when cortical spreading depression (SD) was induced externally or by internal stimulus. The development of CD in patients and the changes in various metabolic parameters, during CD, was rarely reported. Brain metabolic, hemodynamic, ionic and electrical responses to the CD event are dependent upon the O₂ balance in the tissue. When the O2 balance is negative (i.e. ischemia), the CD process will be developed due to mitochondrial dysfunction, lack of energy and the inhibition of Na⁺-K⁺-ATPase. In contradiction, when oxygen is available (i.e. normoxia) the development of CD after induction of SD will accelerate mitochondrial respiration for retaining ionic homeostasis and normal brain functions. We used the multiparametric monitoring approach that enable real time monitoring of mitochondrial NADH redox state, microcirculatory blood flow and oxygenation, extracellular K⁺, Ca²⁺, H⁺ levels, DC steady potential and electrocorticogram (ECoG). This monitoring approach, provide a unique tool that has a significant value in analyzing the pathophysiology of the brain when SD developed under normoxia, ischemia, or hypoxia. We applied the same monitoring approach to patients suffered from severe head injury or exposed to neurosurgical procedures.

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Avraham Mayevsky and Judith Sonn "Mitochondrial activity and brain functions during cortical depolarization", Proc. SPIE 7280, Seventh International Conference on Photonics and Imaging in Biology and Medicine, 728002 (4 March 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.823909

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