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Title: Comparison of [14C]glucose and [14C]deoxyglucose as tracers of brain glucose use. Author: Hawkins RA, Mans AM, Davis DW, DeJoseph MR. Journal: Am J Physiol; 1988 Mar; 254(3 Pt 1):E310-7. PubMed ID: 3348390. Abstract: Because glucose metabolism and functional activity in brain regions are normally coupled, knowledge of regional brain glucose use can yield insights into regional functional activity. The deoxyglucose (DG) method is widely used for this purpose in experimental animals and humans but questions have arisen regarding its limits and accuracy. Therefore an experiment was designed to compare the DG method on a structure-by-structure basis with another tracer of glucose use, [6-14C]glucose, in normal rats. The cerebral metabolic rates obtained using the two tracers were similar in the telencephalon, but the results using DG were substantially lower in the midbrain and hindbrain (diencephalon, 18%; mesencephalon, 20%; metencephalon, 29%; and myelencephalon, 35%). The primary DG metabolite, DG 6-phosphate (DG-6-P) was found to disappear in a non-uniform manner from the major brain structures: telencephalon less than diencephalon less than mesencephalon = metencephalon less than myelencephalon. Thus a correlation was found between the rate of DG-6-P loss and the extent to which the DG method gave lower values of glucose use. Thus this may explain, at least in part, the discrepancies between the two methods.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]