Abstract
It has been proposed that deficient glutamate uptake, by increasing the extracellular concentration of this excitatory neurotransmitter, may contribute to the pathophysiology of cerebral ischaemia. This study aimed to examine whether pharmacological inhibition of glutamate uptake altered the kinetics of ischaemia-induced glutamate efflux, and precipitated anoxic depolarisation. Microdialysis was used for application of the glutamate-uptake inhibitor L-trans-pyrrolidine-2,4-dicarboxylate (L-trans-PDC), recording of the EEG and extracellular direct current (DC) potential with an electrode within the probe, and continuous monitoring of changes in extracellular glutamate. L-trans-PDC was applied locally from 8 min prior to cardiac arrest to the end of the recording period. L-trans-PDC (2.5 mM) barely altered the time course of postmortem glutamate efflux in the cortex. Only the maximum rate of efflux during the first exocytotic phase, and the concentration reached at the end of this phase, appeared slightly increased. L-trans-PDC (5 mM) reduced significantly the delay between EEG silence and anoxic depolarization in the cerebral cortex (59.2 +/- 9.2 s vs. 79.7 +/- 11.5 s; n = 6), but not in the striatum and hippocampus. These effec...Continue Reading
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