title: Metabolic fuel and amino acid transport into the brain in experimental hypothyroidism.
abstract: The effect of hypothyroidism in the adult rat on blood-brain barrier and muscle transport of hexoses, neutral amino acids, basic amino acids, monocarboxylic acids, and ketone bodies was examined using single arterial injection-tissue sampling technique. The cerebral blood flow and brain extraction of 3H2O (internal reference substance) was not altered in 3-month-old hypothyroid rats maintained on methimazole, 0.025% in the drinking water, for 7 weeks. The brain uptake index of D-beta-hydroxybutyrate was significantly reduced in hypothyroid rats (2.4 +/- 0.3 vs 4.6 +/- 0.6% p less than 0.001). Hypothyroid rats given thyroid hormone replacement therapy had normal brain uptake of D-beta-hydroxybutyrate (4.4 +/- 0.8%). The brain uptake index of butyrate was also significantly reduced in hypothyroid rats (39.3 +/- 2.1 vs 47.2 +/- 0.74%, p less than 0.001). The brain uptake index of other test substances and muscle uptake of nutrients examined were not altered in hypothyroid rats. These studies indicate that of the four transport systems examined in two tissues, the blood-brain barrier monocarboxylic acid transport system is most susceptible to the hypothyroidism-induced changes.
authors.affiliation: Tucson VA Medical Center, AZ.
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Mooradian
mesh_terms: D020155:3-Hydroxybutyric Acid; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D001812:Blood-Brain Barrier / Q000187:drug effects; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D002264:Carboxylic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D002463:Cell Membrane Permeability / Q000187:drug effects; D006601:Hexoses / Q000378:metabolism*; D006885:Hydroxybutyrates / Q000378:metabolism; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000378:metabolism*; D007657:Ketone Bodies / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008713:Methimazole / Q000008:administration & dosage; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D014284:Triiodothyronine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D002264:Carboxylic Acids; D006601:Hexoses; D006885:Hydroxybutyrates; D007657:Ketone Bodies; D014284:Triiodothyronine; D008713:Methimazole; D020155:3-Hydroxybutyric Acid