title: Local spinal cord glucose utilization in conscious and halothane-anaesthetized rats.
abstract: The authors used the 2-[14C]deoxyglucose method to study local spinal and cerebral glucose utilization simultaneously during 1.2 per cent halothane anaesthesia in adult Sprague-Dawley rats. In conscious animals (n = 5) the rate of glucose utilization in lumbar spinal gray matter was about 50 per cent lower than that of cerebral cortex. Halothane anaesthesia (n = 6) reduced spinal cord and cerebral metabolic rate. Spinal glucose utilization was reduced 12-35 per cent, but this was less than the 45-70 per cent decrease halothane produced in 8 of 16 cerebral structures examined and was independent of the hypotension produced. These results indicate that halothane is a spinal metabolic depressant but that its effects on this tissue are substantially less than those it has on many cerebral structures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Crosby
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Atlas
mesh_terms: D000769:Anesthesia, Inhalation; D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D003837:Deoxy Sugars / Q000378:metabolism*; D003847:Deoxyglucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D006221:Halothane / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D003837:Deoxy Sugars; D003847:Deoxyglucose; D006221:Halothane