Cerebral Synaptic Transmission During Anoxia Is Protected by Creatine
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 37 (6), 1618-1621
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1981.tb06337.x
Abstract
Synaptic transmission in cerebral tissue fails very rapidly in the absence of oxygen; the metabolic basis for this is not known. We report here that the transmission failure in the guinea pig hippocampal slice can be delayed threefold by exposing the tissue to extracellular creatine (Cr) for 3 h. The improved survival is associated with an increase of tissue phosphocreatine (PCr) concentration. These data argue that the metabolic basis for synaptic transmission failure is a fall in tissue ATP concentrations. They also indicate a way to protect brain tissue against anoxic damage.Keywords
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