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Direct determination of homovanillic acid release from the human brain, an indicator of central dopaminergic activity.

Abstract：

:The plasma concentration of the dopamine (DA) metabolite, homovanillic acid (HVA), is used as an indicator of central nervous system dopaminergic activity. Using percutaneously inserted catheters we were able to obtain blood samples simultaneously from the right and left internal jugular veins. Veno-arterial HVA plasma concentration differences combined with adjusted organ plasma flows were used, according to the Fick Principle, to determine the HVA overflow from the brain. The HVA overflow from the liver was also measured. HVA overflow from the brain represented 12% of the total body HVA production. A similar amount was released from the liver, illustrating the limited validity of peripheral plasma HVA measurements as an indicator of central dopaminergic activity. HVA release from the human brain displayed a degree of asymmetry, the overflow into the left internal jugular vein being 36% greater than that into the right. Cerebral venous blood flow scans indicated that cortical cerebral regions drained preferentially into the right internal jugular; by inference the higher HVA overflow on the left originated from dopamine-rich subcortical brain areas. Since HVA in plasma may arise from the metabolism of DA existing either as a neurotransmitter or a norepinephrine (NE) precursor we measured the internal jugular vein plasma concentrations of NE, and its metabolite dihydroxyphenylglycol (DHPG), to determine whether they displayed a similar pattern of release to HVA. The overflow of both NE and DHPG into the right internal jugular vein was approximately double that on the left. Since the overflow of HVA did not parallel that of NE and DHPG it may be inferred that the origin of much of the subcortically produced HVA is from dopaminergic neurons and not from the metabolism of precursor DA in noradrenergic neurones or cerebrovascular sympathetic nerves.

journal_name

Life Sci

journal_title

Life sciences

authors

Lambert GW,Eisenhofer G,Cox HS,Horne M,Kalff V,Kelly M,Jennings GL,Esler MD

doi

10.1016/0024-3205(91)90593-z

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-01-01 00:00:00

pages

1061-72

issue

eissn

0024-3205

issn

1879-0631

pii

0024-3205(91)90593-Z

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Direct determination of homovanillic acid release from the human brain, an indicator of central dopaminergic activity.