The Effect of S. Pneumoniae Bacteremia on Cerebral Blood Flow Autoregulation in Rats
Open Access
- 13 June 2007
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
- Vol. 28 (1), 126-134
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jcbfm.9600514
Abstract
In the present study, we studied the effect of bacteremia on cerebral blood flow (CBF) autoregulation in a rat model of pneumococcal bacteremia and meningitis. Anesthetized rats were divided into five groups (A to E) and inoculated with pneumococci intravenously and normal saline intracisternally (group A, N = 10); saline intravenously and pneumococci intracisternally (group B, N = 10); pneumococci intravenously and pneumococci intracisternally (group C, N = 5); saline intravenously, antipneumococcal antibody intravenously (to prevent bacteremia), and pneumococci intracisternally (group D, N = 10); or saline intravenously and saline intracisternally (group E, N = 10), respectively. Positive cultures occurred in the blood for all rats in groups A, B, and C, and in the cerebrospinal fluid for all rats in groups D and E. Twenty-four hours after inoculation, CBF was measured with laser-Doppler ultrasound during incremental reductions in cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) by controlled hemorrhage. Autoregulation was preserved in all rats without meningitis (groups A and E) and was lost in 24 of 25 meningitis rats (groups B, C, and D) ( P <0.01). In group A, the lower limit was higher than that of group E ( P <0.05). The slope of the CBF/CPP regression line differed between the meningitis groups ( P < 0.001), being steeper for group B than groups C and D, with no difference between these two groups. The results suggest that pneumococcal bacteremia in rats triggers cerebral vasodilation, which right shifts the lower limit of, but does not entirely abolish, CBF autoregulation in the absence of meningitis, and which may further aggravate the vasoparalysis induced by concomitant pneumococcal meningitis.Keywords
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