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Blood brain barrier Flashcards

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What can brain scans reveal?

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How brain function changes in response to a task, challenge or disease

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What does fMRI stand for?

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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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What does fMRI detect?

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Does not measure brain activity directly

This imaging detects signals associated with changes in cerebral blood flow

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What does fMRI rely on?

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The coupling between neuronal activation and cerebral blood flow

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How does fMRI indirectly measure neural activity?

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When neural activity in a region increases, blood flow to that region also increases

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How active is the brain?

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Most metabolically active of all organs in the body

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How much does the brain weigh?

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Roughly 2% of total body weight

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How much cardiac output does the brain receive?

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15%

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How much body energy does the brain consume at rest?

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20%

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What does the brain not have?

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Glycogen stores

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What does the brain require because of the lack of glycogen stores?

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Constant supply of glucose and O2 for ATP metabolism

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Why does the brain use so much energy?

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Communication of neurons requires a lot of energy

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What is the main site of energy consumption?

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Synapses

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What is energy in the synapses for?

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Energy is used to reverse the movement of ions at synapses during neuronal communication

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What do synapses rely heavily on?

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Local ATP synthesis

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What is within each synapse which suggests the synapse needs a lot of energy?

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Mitochondria

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What is the ATP used to do in the synapse?

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Resetting the synapse to its normal state

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What is required to maintain synaptic activity?

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Constant supply of glucose and oxygen

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How are glucose and oxygen delivered to the brain?

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Via its blood supply in cerebral circulation

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What are the 2 sources the brain receive its blood supply from?

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Arising from the dorsal aorta
o Common carotid→ internal carotid arteries
o Subclavian artery→ vertebral arteries

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What do the right and left vertebral arteries join to form?

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Single basilar artery

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What does the basilar artery and two internal carotid arteries form?

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Circle of Willis

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Where is the Circle of Willis located?

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Base of brain

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What part is the Circle of Willis?

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Arterial ring formed from basilar artery and internal carotid arteries

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What does the Circle of Willis give rise to?
The major cerebral arteries
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Where do pairs of left and right cerebral arteries arise from?
Circle of Willis
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What do pairs of left and right cerebral arteries supply?
All parts of the brain
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What happens if one of the main carotid or vertebral arteries are blocked?
The cerebral arteries can receive through blood through Circle of Willis
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What is each cerebral hemisphere supplied by?
Three major arteries
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What are the three major arteries that supply each cerebral hemisphere?
Anterior Cerebral Artery Left Middle Cerebral artery Posterior cerebral artery
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Where does stroke usually form?
In the middle cerebral artery
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What are symptoms of stroke related to?
Affected area
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Where do cerebral arteries branch?
Over the brain structures | Arteries on brain surface--> Penetrating arterioles --> capillary bed
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What do cerebral arteries give rise to?
Penetrating arterioles then capillaries
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How vascularised is brain tissue?
Highly vascularised
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What does functional activation by sensory stimulation lead to?
Regional increase in the glucose metabolism in corresponding cerebral structures
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What is the relationship between glucose use in a brain region to the blood flow in that region?
Proportional
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What is neurovascular coupling?
Changes in neural activity cause changes in local blood flow
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What happens with neuronal activation
Neurotransmitter release Increase ATP consumption Increase O2 and glucose consumption
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What happens with neurotrasmitter release and increase in O2 and glucose consumption?
Vasoactive chemical agents cause vasodilation | Increased cerebral blood flow
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What is neurovascular coupling the basis for?
BOLD signal detected by fMRI
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What does fMRI measure?
Scanner measures function-related changes in blood flow
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What does fMRI indirectly measure?
Neuronal activity
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What cells are responsible for dilation and constriction of arterioles?
Vascular smooth muscle
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What are responsible for dilation and constriction of capillaries?
Pericytes
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What does the blood brain barrier (BBB) restrict?
Movement of substances into and out of the brain
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What does the term BBB refer to?
A complex of cells that separate the brain parenchyma from the luminal contents of the cerebral vasculature
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What are the functions of the BBB?
Protects the brain from “foreign substances” in the blood that may injure the brain Protects the brain from hormones and neurotransmitters released in the rest of the body Maintains a constant environment for the brain to enable normal neuronal function
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What lines the lumen of cerebral vessels?
Endothelial cells
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what do cerebral endothelial cells have?
Tight junctions
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What do tight junctions in endothelial cells restrict?
Free passage of substances from the blood to the brain
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How does glucose enter the brain?
Transport carriers for glucose facilitate its entry into the brain
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How does O2 enter the brain?
Diffuses freely from blood to brain
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What is the first pathway across the blood-brain barrier?
Transcellular lipophillic pathway | Lipid-soluble agents
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What is the second way across the blood brain barrier?
Transport proteins | Glucose, amino acids, nucleosides
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What is the third way across the blood brain barrier?
Receptor mediated endocytosis | Insulin and transferrin
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What is the last way across the blood brain barrier?
Absorptive endocytosis | Albumin, other plasma proteins
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Do all areas if the brain have a BBB?
No
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Where is there no BBB?
Structures in the midline of the ventricular system collectively referred to as circumventricular organs (CVOs)
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What are some examples of CVOs?
``` Pituitary gland Median eminence Area postrema Preoptic recess Paraphysis Pineal gland Endothelium choroid plexus ```

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