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Temporal dynamics of lactate concentration in the human brain during acute inspiratory hypoxia
Author(s) -
Harris Ashley D.,
Roberton Victoria H.,
Huckle Danielle L.,
Saxeeeraj,
Evans C. John,
Murphy Kevin,
Hall Judith E.,
Bailey Damian M.,
Mitsis Georgios,
Edden Richard A.E.,
Wise Richard G.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of magnetic resonance imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1522-2586
pISSN - 1053-1807
DOI - 10.1002/jmri.23815
Subject(s) - blood lactate , hypoxia (environmental) , coefficient of variation , respiration , cerebral blood flow , lactic acid , cardiology , medicine , anesthesia , respiratory system , oxygen , chemistry , biology , heart rate , anatomy , blood pressure , genetics , organic chemistry , chromatography , bacteria
Purpose: To demonstrate the feasibility of measuring the temporal dynamics of cerebral lactate concentration and examine these dynamics in human subjects using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) during hypoxia. Materials and Methods: A respiratory protocol consisting of 10‐minute baseline normoxia, 20‐minute inspiratory hypoxia, and ending with 10‐minute normoxic recovery was used, throughout which lactate‐edited MRS was performed. This was repeated four times in three subjects. A separate session was performed to measure blood lactate. Impulse response functions using end‐tidal oxygen and blood lactate as system inputs and cerebral lactate as the system output were examined to describe the dynamics of the cerebral lactate response to a hypoxic challenge. Results: The average lactate increase was 20% ± 15% during the last half of the hypoxic challenge. Significant changes in cerebral lactate concentration were observed after 400 seconds. The average relative increase in blood lactate was 188% ± 95%. The temporal dynamics of cerebral lactate concentration was reproducibly demonstrated with 200‐second time bins of MRS data (coefficient of variation 0.063 ± 0.035 between time bins in normoxia). The across‐subject coefficient of variation was 0.333. Conclusion: The methods for measuring the dynamics of the cerebral lactate response developed here would be useful to further investigate the brain's response to hypoxia. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2013;37:739–745. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.