Time-resolved quantification of the dynamic extracellular space in the brain: study of cortical spreading depression

Journal of Neurophysiology
Hui-Hui ZhaoKevin C Chen

Abstract

Extracellular diffusion in the brain is customarily characterized by two parameters, the extracellular space (ECS) volume fraction α and the diffusion tortuosity λ. How these two parameters are temporarily modified and correlated in a physiological/pathological event remains unclear to date. Using tetramethylammonium (TMA+) as an ECS ion tracer in a newly updated iontophoretic sinusoidal method, we studied in this work the dynamic α(t) and λ(t) in rat somatosensory cortex during spreading depression (SD). Temporal variations of α(t) and λ(t), as evoked by SD, were obtained through analyses of the extracellular TMA+ diffusion waveform resulting from a sinusoidally modulated point source. Most of the time, cortical SD induced coordinated α(t) decreases and λ(t) increases. In rare occasions, SD induced sole decreases of α(t) with no changes in λ(t). The independent modulation of α(t) and λ(t) was neither associated with cortical anatomy nor with the specific shape of the SD field potential wave. Changes of α(t) and λ(t) often took place acutely at the onset of SD, followed by a more transient modulation. Compared with the prior iontophoretic methods of TMA+, the sinusoidal method provides time-resolved quantification of α(t) and λ...Continue Reading

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