[HTML][HTML] Metabolic recruitment in brain tissue

LF Barros, I Ruminot, T Sotelo-Hitschfeld… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Information processing imposes urgent metabolic demands on neurons, which have
negligible energy stores and restricted access to fuel. Here, we discuss metabolic …

The astrocyte: metabolic hub of the brain

LF Barros, S Schirmeier… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Astrocytic metabolism has taken center stage. Interposed between the neuron and the
vasculature, astrocytes exert control over the fluxes of energy and building blocks required …

[HTML][HTML] Neurovascular coupling and CO2 interrogate distinct vascular regulations

M Tournissac, E Chaigneau, S Pfister, AK Aydin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Neurovascular coupling (NVC), which mediates rapid increases in cerebral blood flow in
response to neuronal activation, is commonly used to map brain activation or dysfunction …

Parvalbumin interneuron activity drives fast inhibition-induced vasoconstriction followed by slow substance P-mediated vasodilation

TT Vo, GH Im, K Han, M Suh… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The role of parvalbumin (PV) interneurons in vascular control is poorly understood. Here, we
investigated the hemodynamic responses elicited by optogenetic stimulation of PV …

The astrocytic Na+‐HCO3 cotransporter, NBCe1, is dispensable for respiratory chemosensitivity

K Li, EC Gonye, RL Stornetta, CB Bayliss… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The interoceptive homeostatic mechanism that controls breathing, blood gases and acid‐
base balance in response to changes in CO2/H+ is exquisitely sensitive, with convergent …

[HTML][HTML] Brain capillary pericytes are metabolic sentinels that control blood flow through a KATP channel-dependent energy switch

A Hariharan, CD Robertson, DCG Garcia, TA Longden - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Despite the abundance of capillary thin-strand pericytes and their proximity to neurons and
glia, little is known of the contributions of these cells to the control of brain hemodynamics …

On the use and misuse of cerebral hemodynamics terminology using transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a call for standardization

RJ Skow, RM Brothers… - American Journal …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Cerebral hemodynamics, eg, cerebral blood flow, can be measured and quantified using
many different methods, with transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) being one of the most …

Neurovascular coupling is optimized to compensate for the increase in proton production from nonoxidative glycolysis and glycogenolysis during brain activation and maintain homeostasis of pH, p …

M DiNuzzo, GA Dienel, KL Behar… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
During transient brain activation cerebral blood flow (CBF) increases substantially more than
cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption (CMRO2) resulting in blood …

[HTML][HTML] Enlightening brain energy metabolism

LF Barros, I Ruminot, PY Sandoval… - Neurobiology of Disease, 2023 - Elsevier
Brain tissue metabolism is distributed across several cell types and subcellular
compartments, which activate at different times and with different temporal patterns. The …

Circadian biology and the neurovascular unit

W Li, S Tiedt, JH Lawrence, ME Harrington… - Circulation …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Mammalian physiology and cellular function are subject to significant oscillations over the
course of every 24-hour day. It is likely that these daily rhythms will affect function as well as …