Journal article
Vasoactive drugs produce selective changes in flow to experimental brain tumors
Annals of neurology, Vol.18(6), pp.712-715
12/1985
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410180614
PMID: 3002239
Abstract
Most vasoactive drugs do not readily penetrate the blood‐brain barrier and do not affect cerebral blood flow. We tested the hypothesis that vasoactive drugs may alter blood flow to brain tumors in which the blood‐brain barrier is abnormal. Blood flow was measured with microspheres in dogs with brain tumors induced by avian sarcoma virus. Intravenously administered adenosine increased blood flow to tumor more than twofold but did not alter flow to normal brain. Intravenously administered norepinephrine decreased blood flow to tumor but not to normal brain. Thus, vasoactive drugs, which have little effect on blood flow to normal cerebrum, produce large changes in blood flow to brain tumors. We also examined responses to systemic hypercapnia. Hypercapnia increased blood flow to normal cerebrum more than twofold but failed to increase flow to tumors. Impaired vasodilator responses to hypercapnia in brain tumors, which cannot be explained primarily by an abnormality of the blood‐brain barrier, probably reflect another fundamental difference between vessels in normal brain and brain tumors. The finding that vasoactive drugs have selective effects on blood flow to brain tumors has important implications for delivery of lipid‐soluble chemotherapeutic drugs to the tumors.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Vasoactive drugs produce selective changes in flow to experimental brain tumors
- Creators
- Lori A PantherGary L BaumbachDarell D BignerDonald PiegorsDennis R GroothuisDonald D Heistad
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annals of neurology, Vol.18(6), pp.712-715
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company; Boston
- DOI
- 10.1002/ana.410180614
- PMID
- 3002239
- ISSN
- 0364-5134
- eISSN
- 1531-8249
- Number of pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/1985
- Academic Unit
- Pathology; Cardiovascular Medicine; Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center; Neuroscience and Pharmacology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984040215402771
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