Hypoglycemia in Dogs and Recovery After Intracisternal Administration of Glucose

¹ From the Research Laboratory, Veterans Administration Hospital, and the Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

A standardized procedure for the production of hypoglycemia in dogs has been developed. The degree of hypoglycemia may be determined by the correlation of electroencephalographic tracings and levels of plasma constituents. During severe hypoglycemia glucose was injected either by the intravenous or intracisternal route. In the former group the brain electrical activity returned to normal within 1 minute, whereas, the latter group required 6–10 minutes. Serial sampling of arterial blood in the animals which had been given glucose directly into the cerebrospinal fluid showed that relatively large increases in plasma glucose preceded the return to normal electrical activity of the brain. It is concluded that glucose does not pass directly from the cerebrospinal fluid into the cerebral tissues but rather is transported to the general circulation before entering the brain.

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