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Schmidt EA, Despas F, Pavy-Le Traon A, Czosnyka Z, Pickard JD, Rahmouni K, Pathak A, Senard JM. Intracranial Pressure Is a Determinant of Sympathetic Activity. Front Physiol 2018; 9:11. [PMID: 29472865 PMCID: PMC5809772 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2017] [Accepted: 01/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Intracranial pressure (ICP) is the pressure within the cranium. ICP rise compresses brain vessels and reduces cerebral blood delivery. Massive ICP rise leads to cerebral ischemia, but it is also known to produce hypertension, bradycardia and respiratory irregularities due to a sympatho-adrenal mechanism termed Cushing response. One still unresolved question is whether the Cushing response is a non-synaptic acute brainstem ischemic mechanism or part of a larger physiological reflex for arterial blood pressure control and homeostasis regulation. We hypothesize that changes in ICP modulates sympathetic activity. Thus, modest ICP increase and decrease were achieved in mice and patients with respectively intra-ventricular and lumbar fluid infusion. Sympathetic activity was gauged directly by microneurography, recording renal sympathetic nerve activity in mice and muscle sympathetic nerve activity in patients, and gauged indirectly in both species by heart-rate variability analysis. In mice (n = 15), renal sympathetic activity increased from 29.9 ± 4.0 bursts.s−1 (baseline ICP 6.6 ± 0.7 mmHg) to 45.7 ± 6.4 bursts.s−1 (plateau ICP 38.6 ± 1.0 mmHg) and decreased to 34.8 ± 5.6 bursts.s−1 (post-infusion ICP 9.1 ± 0.8 mmHg). In patients (n = 10), muscle sympathetic activity increased from 51.2 ± 2.5 bursts.min−1 (baseline ICP 8.3 ± 1.0 mmHg) to 66.7 ± 2.9 bursts.min−1 (plateau ICP 25 ± 0.3 mmHg) and decreased to 58.8 ± 2.6 bursts.min−1 (post-infusion ICP 14.8 ± 0.9 mmHg). In patients 7 mmHg ICP rise significantly increases sympathetic activity by 17%. Heart-rate variability analysis demonstrated a significant vagal withdrawal during the ICP rise, in accordance with the microneurography findings. Mice and human results are alike. We demonstrate in animal and human that ICP is a reversible determinant of efferent sympathetic outflow, even at relatively low ICP levels. ICP is a biophysical stress related to the forces within the brain. But ICP has also to be considered as a physiological stressor, driving sympathetic activity. The results suggest a novel physiological ICP-mediated sympathetic modulation circuit and the existence of a possible intracranial (i.e., central) baroreflex. Modest ICP rise might participate to the pathophysiology of cardio-metabolic homeostasis imbalance with sympathetic over-activity, and to the pathogenesis of sympathetically-driven diseases.
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- Eric A Schmidt
- Institut des Maladies Métaboliques et Cardiovasculaires, I2MC, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.,Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Institut des Maladies Métaboliques et Cardiovasculaires, I2MC, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.,Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Institut des Maladies Métaboliques et Cardiovasculaires, I2MC, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Brain Physics Lab, Academic Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Brain Physics Lab, Academic Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Departments of Pharmacology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
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- Institut des Maladies Métaboliques et Cardiovasculaires, I2MC, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.,Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Institut des Maladies Métaboliques et Cardiovasculaires, I2MC, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.,Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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McBryde FD, Malpas SC, Paton JFR. Intracranial mechanisms for preserving brain blood flow in health and disease. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2017; 219:274-287. [PMID: 27172364 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Revised: 02/03/2016] [Accepted: 05/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The brain is an exceptionally energetically demanding organ with little metabolic reserve, and multiple systems operate to protect and preserve the brain blood supply. But how does the brain sense its own perfusion? In this review, we discuss how the brain may harness the cardiovascular system to counter threats to cerebral perfusion sensed via intracranial pressure (ICP), cerebral oxygenation and ischaemia. Since the work of Cushing over 100 years ago, the existence of brain baroreceptors capable of eliciting increases in sympathetic outflow and blood pressure has been hypothesized. In the clinic, this response has generally been thought to occur only in extremis, to perfuse the severely ischaemic brain as cerebral autoregulation fails. We review evidence that pressor responses may also occur with smaller, physiologically relevant increases in ICP. The incoming brain oxygen supply is closely monitored by the carotid chemoreceptors; however, hypoxia and other markers of ischaemia are also sensed intrinsically by astrocytes or other support cells within brain tissue itself and elicit reactive hyperaemia. Recent studies suggest that astrocytic oxygen signalling within the brainstem may directly affect sympathetic nerve activity and blood pressure. We speculate that local cerebral oxygen tension is a major determinant of the mean level of arterial pressure and discuss recent evidence that this may be the case. We conclude that intrinsic intra- and extra-cranial mechanisms sense and integrate information about hypoxia/ischaemia and ICP and play a major role in determining the long-term level of sympathetic outflow and arterial pressure, to optimize cerebral perfusion.
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- F. D. McBryde
- Department of Physiology; Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences; University of Auckland; Auckland New Zealand
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience; Biomedical Sciences; University of Bristol; Bristol UK
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- Department of Physiology; Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences; University of Auckland; Auckland New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology; Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences; University of Auckland; Auckland New Zealand
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience; Biomedical Sciences; University of Bristol; Bristol UK
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Lindvall M, Edvinsson L, Owman C. Sympathetic nervous control of cerebrospinal fluid production from the choroid plexus. Science 1978; 201:176-8. [PMID: 663649 DOI: 10.1126/science.663649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The rabbit choroid plexus, responsible for the bulk production of cerebrospinal fluid, is well supplied by sympathetic nerves emanating in the superior cervical ganglia. Electrical stimulation of these nerves markedly reduces production of cerebrospinal fluid, measured by [14C] inulin dilution during ventricular perfusion, whereas sympathetic denervation enhances the rate of formation.
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West KA, Hassler O. Effect of sympathetic denervation on chronic cold injuries in rabbit brain. A microangiographical and histological study. Acta Neurol Scand 1976; 54:248-55. [PMID: 60870 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1976.tb04801.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Sympathetic denervation of the brain vessels was performed uni- or bilaterally in 13 adult rabbits, and cortical cold lesions were induced bilaterally 10-18 days afterwards. After a further 4-35 days the vascular and morphological changes in the lesion areas were studied histologically and with angiography. No difference was observed between the denervated and the non-denervated lesion areas. The results are discussed with regard to a proposed functional plasticity of the chronically denervated brain vessels and/or to possible changes in metabolic demands of the brain tissue.
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Edvinsson L, Nielsen KC, Owman C, West KA. Intracranial pressure in conscious rabbits after intraventricular reserpine. J Neurosurg 1974; 40:743-6. [PMID: 4406461 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1974.40.6.0743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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✓ Ventricular fluid pressure was measured continuously for 50 hours in conscious rabbits via a cannula implanted into the left lateral ventricle. Intraventricular injection of 25 µg reserpine (in a volume of 10 µl) resulted in increased pressure compared to that in non-injected controls during the first 7 to 10 hours. This was interpreted as depletion of noradrenaline in intracranial sympathetic nerves leading to increased cerebral blood volume and increased cerebrospinal fluid production. During the remainder of the experiment, the ventricular fluid pressure was reduced, probably due to a predominance of the central depressant effects of reserpine.
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