Association of reduced extracellular brain ammonia, lactate, and intracranial pressure in pigs with acute liver failure

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Title:	Association of reduced extracellular brain ammonia, lactate, and intracranial pressure in pigs with acute liver failure
Creators Name:	Rose, C., Ytrebo, L.M., Davies, N.A., Sen, S., Nedredal, G.I., Belanger, M., Revhaug, A. and Jalan, R.
Abstract:	We previously demonstrated in pigs with acute liver failure (ALF) that albumin dialysis using the molecular adsorbents recirculating system (MARS) attenuated a rise in intracranial pressure (ICP). This was independent of changes in arterial ammonia, cerebral blood flow and inflammation, allowing alternative hypotheses to be tested. The aims of the present study were to determine whether changes in cerebral extracellular ammonia, lactate, glutamine, glutamate, and energy metabolites were associated with the beneficial effects of MARS on ICP. Three randomized groups [sham, ALF (induced by portacaval anastomosis and hepatic artery ligation), and ALF+MARS] were studied over a 6-hour period with a 4-hour MARS treatment given beginning 2 hours after devascularization. Using cerebral microdialysis, the ALF-induced increase in extracellular brain ammonia, lactate, and glutamate was significantly attenuated in the ALF+MARS group as well as the increases in extracellular lactate/pyruvate and lactate/glucose ratios. The percent change in extracellular brain ammonia correlated with the percent change in ICP (r2 = 0.511). Increases in brain lactate dehydrogenase activity and mitochondrial complex activity for complex IV were found in ALF compared with those in the sham, which was unaffected by MARS treatment. Brain oxygen consumption did not differ among the study groups. Conclusion: The observation that brain oxygen consumption and mitochondrial complex enzyme activity changed in parallel in both ALF- and MARS-treated animals indicates that the attenuation of increased extracellular brain ammonia (and extracellular brain glutamate) in the MARS-treated animals reduces energy demand and increases supply, resulting in attenuation of increased extracellular brain lactate. The mechanism of how MARS reduces extracellular brain ammonia requires further investigation.
Keywords:	Acute Liver Failure, Ammonia, Animal Disease Models, Brain Chemistry, Extracellular Space, Glutamic Acid, Glutamine, Intracranial Pressure, Lactic Acid, Sorption Detoxification, Animals, Swine
Source:	Hepatology
ISSN:	0270-9139
Publisher:	Wiley
Volume:	46
Number:	6
Page Range:	1883-1892
Date:	December 2007
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.21877
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