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B Gillet

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PubMed1994

Cerebral metabolic changes induced by MK-801: a 1D (phosphorus and proton) and 2D (proton) in vivo NMR spectroscopy study.

The dynamic effects of the non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist, MK-801 on brain metabolism were investigated over 105 minutes in unanesthetized rats by proton and phosphorus NMR spectroscopy. MK-801 (0.5 and 5 mg/kg, i.p) induced no changes in intracellular pH, and in phosphocreatine, ATP, and inorganic phosphate levels, indicating that the drug preserved energy and intracellular pH homeostasis. There were transient increases in lactate after both doses of MK-801, suggesting early activation of glycolysis, which was not immediately matched by enhanced oxidative metabolism or by enhanced blood flow. Thereafter, lactate control level was not restored after 0.5 mg/kg whereas it was restored after 5 mg/kg in spite of a sustained metabolic activation. The low dose of MK-801 also caused a continuous decrease in cerebral aspartate level (-38%) which is thought to match the enhanced energy demand, whereas the high dose caused shorter and smaller changes. The intracerebral glucose level rose after MK-801 injection, indicating that brain tissue had an adequate or even excessive supply of glucose. Glucose time course seemed to closely match the changes in blood flow elicited by MK-801. This is the first study giving the metabolic pattern of a pharmacological activation. We demonstrate an excess of glycolysis over oxidative metabolism in the early time similar to that following physiological and pathophysiological states such as photic stimulation and seizures. The difference between the effects of the two doses of MK-801 suggests that the adjustment of cerebral metabolism to MK-801 activation is faster and greater with the high dose than with the low dose.

Animals↗
PubMed1994

Effects of kainate-induced seizures on cerebral metabolism: a combined 1H and 31P NMR study in rat.

The cerebral metabolic changes elicited by kainate-induced seizures in the rat were investigated by in vivo combined NMR spectroscopy of 31P and 1H. Systemic injection of kainate induced no significant changes in cerebral ATP or PCr levels during up to 90 min of continuous, generalised seizures, and the cerebral 31P spectra showed only a transient mild cerebral acidosis 30 min after kainate administration. In parallel with the changes in intracellular cerebral pH, the 1H spectra showed a significant increase in lactate, which remained elevated throughout the seizures. These findings indicate that oxidative metabolism does not completely match the increased glycolysis during seizures though the energy homeostasis is maintained. This suggests that oxidative metabolism has a limited capacity to satisfy the brain's energy needs during the kainate-induced seizures, but that the different pathways of energy production in the brain cells can overcome this limitation. Thus the brain damage associated with this experimental model of epilepsy is not due to extended major failure of the energy supply.

Acidosis↗
PubMed1992

In vivo identification and monitoring of changes in rat brain glucose by two-dimensional shift-correlated 1H NMR spectroscopy.

Intracerebral glucose resonance was directly detected and resolved in vivo by two-dimensional shift-correlated (COSY) 1H NMR spectroscopy in anesthetized rats (n = 4). The relative changes in brain glucose concentration were measured by volume integration of the alpha-D-glucose cross peak in the 2D COSY spectra. This report demonstrates the possibility of monitoring the variations in cerebral glucose following iv injection of glucose.

Animals↗
PubMed1992

Alkaloids from Psychotria oleoides with activity on growth hormone release.

Bioactivity-guided purification of a crude alkaloid extract of Psychotria oleoides has afforded a new alkaloid, psycholeine [1], together with quadrigemine C [2], a tetrameric pyrrolidinoindoline compound of unknown stereochemistry. A comparison study of nmr and cd spectra of quadrigemine C and hodgkinsine [3], a trimeric pyrrolidinoindoline substance, led us to suggest the stereochemistry of quadrigemine C. The structure and configuration of psycholeine was determined by spectroscopic means and chemical correlation with quadrigemine C. Psycholeine interacts with somatostatin receptors and exhibits a somatostatin antagonistic activity on GH secretion by pituitary cells in primary culture.

Alkaloids↗
PubMed1991

[Value of in vivo NMR spectroscopy in the study of cerebral metabolism under inhalation anesthesia].

NMR in vivo spectroscopy is one of the few methods available for non-invasive investigations of cerebral metabolism in animals and humans. 31P and 1H spectroscopy are particularly suitable for monitoring the cerebral energy metabolism by determining the cerebral levels of ATP, ADP, phosphocreatine (PCr), inorganic phosphate (Pi), lactate and intracellular pH (pHi). These techniques also seem to be suitable for studying the effects of anesthetics by directly comparing the anesthetized and unanesthetized states in the same subject. The effects of halothane and isoflurane on the changes elicited in the cerebral energy metabolism by experimental hypercapnia were investigated by in vivo NMR spectroscopy. Halothane was found to aggravate the decrease in PCr attributed to the shift in creatine kinase equilibrium induced by the cerebral acidosis associated to hypercapnia, while the level of cerebral ADP was decreased to a lesser extent than in unanesthetized animals. In contrast isoflurane did not modify the changes in cerebral energy metabolism elicited by hypercapnia except that the decrease in PCr was significantly slowed, suggesting a lower creatine kinase activity. These data indicate that isoflurane and halothane act by two different mechanisms to produce a decrease in oxygen consumption. Halothane could interfere with oxidative metabolism by disturbing ATP metabolism, while isoflurane could decrease oxygen consumption by a general sedative action, slowing both cerebral functional activity and cerebral energy homeostasis.

Anesthesia, Inhalation↗
PubMed1990

2D COSY 1H NMR: a new tool for studying in situ brain metabolism in the living animal.

2D COSY 1H NMR with surface coil has been used to resolve and assign cerebral metabolites which had previously been detected but could not be resolved or assigned in situ in the living animal by conventional 1D 1H NMR. A wide range of cerebral metabolites, including alanine, N-acetyl aspartate, aspartate, choline derivatives, creatine/phosphocreatine pool, GABA, glucose, glutamate/glutamine pool, inositol, lactate and taurine were simultaneously resolved and assigned in situ in the whole animal using the 2D COSY correlation graphs. Global irreversible ischemia caused the appearance and the disappearance of cross-peaks in the 2D COSY 1H NMR map, corresponding to increases in alanine, GABA and lactate and glucose depletion.

Animals↗
PubMed1989

Metabolic action of N-methyl-D-aspartate in newborn rat brain ex vivo: 31p magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) is an agonist used to identify neuronal receptive sites for dicarboxylic amino acid neurotransmitters; NMDA receptors are implicated in neuronal damage of ischemic or hypoglycemic origin in newborns although involved mechanisms remain to be identified. In the present study, 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy with fast (6/min) data acquisition was used in newborn rat brain slices to measure changes of intracellular phosphocreatine and nucleotide triphosphate levels following extracellular NMDA applications. The rapid exhaustion of phosphocreatine stores in 50% of the total population of brain cells was induced in all cases by application of NMDA (30-45 s, 25-100 mM). It was not reproduced by other excitatory agents: potassium ions (24.6 mM, 4 min), isobutylxanthine (1mM), muscarine (10 mM), serotonin (0.1 mM) or substance P (10 microM). Such an effect of NMDA was not modified after tetrodotoxin (1 microM) and was reduced by extracellular 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (50 microM) or magnesium ions (2.2 mM). However it did develop during NMDA-induce neuronal excitations and was reversible within 10-30 min. This action of NMDA was followed by an irreversible decrease of phosphorus metabolites if mitochondrial creatine kinase and adenosine triphosphatase were decoupled by atractyloside (50 microM). Experiments revealed a link between selective NMDA action at neuronal plasma membranes, neurotoxicity and energy production by mitochondria.

Animals↗
PubMed1989

1H COSY spectra of superfused brain slices of rat: ex vivo direct assignment of resonances.

Realization of 1D 1H spectra of superfused brain slices of rats is described. Two-dimensional 1H-1H COSY spectra have been used for the direct assignment of resonances on living tissue (lactate, GABA, N-acetyl aspartate, aspartate, glutamine/glutamate, creatine/phosphocreatine, taurine, inositol, choline/ethanolamine). Utilization of the SUPERCOSY sequence permits simultaneously the enhancement of off-diagonal signals for small metabolites and the reduction of the signals for water and macromolecules.

Animals↗
PubMed1989

Regulation of Vacuolar pH of Plant Cells: I. Isolation and Properties of Vacuoles Suitable for P NMR Studies.

For the first time, the (31)P nuclear magnetic resonance technique has been used to study the properties of isolated vacuoles of plant cells, namely the vacuolar pH and the inorganic phosphate content. Catharanthus roseus cells incubated for 15 hours on a culture medium enriched with 10 millimolar inorganic phosphate accumulated large amounts of inorganic phosphate in their vacuoles. Vacuolar phosphate ions were largely retained in the vacuoles when protoplasts were prepared from the cells and vacuoles isolated from the protoplasts. Vacuolar inorganic phosphate concentrations up to 150 millimolar were routinely obtained. Suspensions prepared with 2 to 3 x 10(6) vacuoles per milliliter from the enriched C. roseus cells have an internal pH value of 5.50 +/- 0.06 and a mean trans-tonoplast DeltapH of 1.56 +/- 0.07. Reliable determinations of vacuolar and external pH could be made by using accumulation times as low as 2 minutes. These conditions are suitable to follow the kinetics of H(+) exchanges at the tonoplast. The (31)P nuclear magnetic resonance technique also offered the possibility of monitoring simultaneously the stability of the trans-tonoplast pH and phosphate gradients. Both appeared to be reasonably stable over several hours. The buffering capacity of the vacuolar sap around pH 5.5 has been estimated by several procedures to be 36 +/- 2 microequivalents per milliliter per pH unit. The increase of the buffering capacity due to the accumulation of phosphate in the vacuoles is, in large part, compensated by a decrease of the intravacuolar malate content.

Journal Article↗
PubMed1989

Regulation of Vacuolar pH of Plant Cells: II. A P NMR Study of the Modifications of Vacuolar pH in Isolated Vacuoles Induced by Proton Pumping and Cation/H Exchanges.

The vacuolar pH and the trans-tonoplast DeltapH modifications induced by the activity of the two proton pumps H(+)-ATPase and H(+)-PPase and by the proton exchanges catalyzed by the Na(+)/H(+) and Ca(2+)/H(+) antiports at the tonoplast of isolated intact vacuoles prepared from Catharanthus roseus cells enriched in inorganic phosphate (Y Mathieu et al 1988 Plant Physiol [in press]) were measured using the (31)P NMR technique. The H(+)-ATPase induced an intravacuolar acidification as large as 0.8 pH unit, building a trans-tonoplast DeltapH up to 2.2 pH units. The hydrolysis of the phosphorylated substrate and the vacuolar acidification were monitored simultaneously to estimate kinetically the apparent stoichiometry between the vectorial proton pumping and the hydrolytic activity of the H(+)-ATPase. A ratio of H(+) translocated/ATP hydrolyzed of 1.97 +/- 0.06 (mean +/- standard error) was calculated. Pyrophosphate-treated vacuoles were also acidified to a significant extent. The H(+)-PPase at 2 millimolar PPi displayed hydrolytic and vectorial activities comparable to those of the H(+)-ATPase, building a steady state DeltapH of 2.1 pH units. Vacuoles incubated in the presence of 10 millimolar Na(+) were alkalinized by 0.4 to 0.8 pH unit. It has been shown by using (23)Na NMR that sodium uptake was coupled to the H(+) efflux and occurred against rather large concentration gradients. For the first time, the activity of the Ca(2+)/H(+) antiport has been measured on isolated intact vacuoles. Ca(2+) uptake was strongly inhibited by NH(4)Cl or gramicidin. Vacuoles incubated with 1 millimolar Ca(2+) were alkalinized by about 0.6 pH unit and this H(+) efflux was associated to a Ca(2+) uptake as demonstrated by measuring the external Ca(2+) concentration with a calcium specific electrode. Steady state accumulation ratios of Ca(2+) as high as 100 were reached for steady state external concentrations about 200 micromolar. The rate of Ca(2+) uptake appeared markedly amplified in intact vacuoles when compared to tonoplast vesicles but the antiport displayed a much lower affinity for calcium. The different behavior of intact vacuoles compared to vesicles appears mainly to be due to differences in the surface to volume ratio and in the rates of dissipation of the pH gradient. Despite its low affinity, the Ca(2+)/H(+) antiport has a high potential capacity to regulate cytoplasmic concentration of calcium.

Journal Article↗
PubMed1988

Metabolic acidosis induced by N-methyl-D-aspartate in brain slices of the neonatal rat: 31P- and 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

1H- and 31P-magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to monitor intracellular lactate, phosphorus metabolites and pH in superfused brain slices from 2- to 9-day-old rats. N-Methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) (100 microM, 0.5-3 min) was applied in the extracellular magnesium-free perfusion medium. NMDA induced intracellular metabolic acidosis, i.e., an increase of freely mobile lactate levels and an 0.3 pH unit acidification. This was abolished when the extracellular glucose supply was reduced. Experiments also indicate that acidosis is not responsible for the cell damage resulting from activation of NMDA receptors in hypoglycemic conditions.

Acidosis, Lactic↗
PubMed1987

Fluoride effects on 31P NMR spectra of macrophages.

31P High resolution nuclear magnetic resonance studies have been carried out on the P388D1 tumoral cell line and the BCG elicited alveolar rabbit macrophages both in sedimented cells and in perfused agarose-embedded cells. When the cells were sufficiently oxygenated, the phosphorylated sugars and ATP concentrations attained high levels. The intensity of the peak representing phosphorylated sugars varied inversely with ATP level when macrophagic cells were treated by NaF. The identities of the phosphorylated sugars were revealed by 1H and 31P NMR studies of the P 388D1 cells perchloric extracts.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗
PubMed1986

Ribose as the preferential target for the oxidized form of elliptinium acetate in ribonucleos(t)ides. Biological activities of the resulting adducts.

The covalent binding of the oxidized form of elliptinium acetate, an antitumor drug, to various ribonucleos(t)ides is described. In the absence of a strong nucleophile on the bases, e.g., a sulfhydryl group, the main target of this quinone imine derivative is the sugar moiety. With unmodified regular bases, the first electrophilic addition always occurs on the 2'-oxygen of ribose (more slowly for pyrimidine than for purine); in a second step, cyclization of the reoxidized product leads to a spiro derivative: only one stereoisomer is detected with purine nucleoside; the other stereoisomer appears as a minor product (10-20%) with nucleotides and pyrimidine nucleosides. With modified bases, no change is observed except for bases exhibiting an additional strong nucleophilic center: oxidized elliptinium alkylates thioguanine and thioguanosine on the sulfur atom and in this last case not on the ribose moiety. All spiro derivatives are less cytotoxic than the parent compound even if the base is an antimetabolite (azauridine); however, thio-elliptinium adducts maintain high cytotoxicity.

Alkaloids↗
PubMed1985

Selective binding of elliptinium acetate onto the 3'-terminal ribose of diribonucleosides monophosphates.

We report the full structure of two elliptinium diribonucleosides monophosphate adducts: the oxidized form of this antitumor agent alkylates very selectively the pX ribose of ApX (X = G or U) leading to a spiro derivative, where the C10 atom of ellipticine skeleton is linked to both sugar oxygen atoms 2' and 3'. No other adducts could be detected, specially the expected ones corresponding to the usual alkylation sites of bases.

Alkaloids↗
PubMed1984

[Opsoclonus. Oculographic recording].

The oculographic recording exposed by the authors in this study shows the difference between the opsoclonus and the abnormal movements: particularly the flutter and the dysmetria. The otologist must be interested to recognize it in his daily practice.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

Hemolytic anemia and sulfhemoglobinemia due to phenacetin abuse: a case with multivisceral adverse effects.

The authors report a case of recurrent sulfhemoglobinemia resulting from a chronic abuse of phenacetin. Cyanosis was accompanied by hemolytic anemia and numerous features of tissue aging. While phenacetin was found to be the oxidizing drug, no source of sulfur was identified. The origin of sulfhemoglobinemia in man is discussed and the possible role of intraerythrocytic glutathione is emphasized.

Adult↗