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THE QUANTITATIVE HISTOCHEMISTRY OF A CHEMICALLY INDUCED EPENDYMOBLASTOMA–II THE EFFECT OF ISCHAEMIA ON SUBSTRATES OF CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM *
Author(s) -
Maker Howard S.,
Lehrer Gerard M.,
Weiss Cipora,
Silides Demetra J.,
Scheinberg Labe C.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
journal of neurochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.75
H-Index - 229
eISSN - 1471-4159
pISSN - 0022-3042
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1966.tb04278.x
Subject(s) - biology , ischemia , glycolysis , carbohydrate metabolism , metabolism , carbohydrate , immunohistochemistry , brain ischemia , biochemistry , endocrinology , pathology , medicine , immunology
SUMMARY Several metabolic intermediates of glycolysis have been assayed by sensitive, quantitative microtechniques in an experimental mouse ependymoblastoma growing in brain and in cerebral hemispheres of the tumour‐bearing animals after exposure to varying periods of ischaemia prior to freezing. Initial levels of glucose and lactate were higher, and ATP and glucose‐6‐phosphate lower, in the ependymoblastoma than in brain. During ischaemia glucose fell and lactate increased less rapidly in the tumour than in brain. The overall patterns of change in glucose‐6‐phosphate were similar in tumour and brain although the level of glucose‐6‐phosphate was consistently lower in the ependymoblastoma. ATP was very low in the tumour at the time of decapitation and it declined less precipitously than in brain, so that after 2 min of ischaemia levels were similar in the two tissues.