Cerebrospinal fluid formation in ventricles and spinal subarachnoid space of the rhesus monkey

1975 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 674-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren E. Lux ◽  
Joseph D. Fenstermacher

✓ The authors perfused rhesus monkeys from lateral ventricles to lumbar sac with an artificial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) containing a Blue Dextran 2000 marker. Analysis of marker dilution at steady state showed ventricular CSF formation occurring at a rate of 28.3 ± 2.5 µ1/min. No significant CSF formation was found in the spinal subarachnoid space.

1972 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamu Sato ◽  
Takahiko Asai ◽  
Yoshiyuki Amano ◽  
Makoto Hara ◽  
Ryuichi Tsugane ◽  
...  

✓ The spinal subarachnoid space of the dog was perfused with an artificial cerebrospinal fluid containing inulin as a tracer. The experimental procedures were based upon the concept that the decrease in inulin concentration occurring during the perfusion was exclusively a function of the volume of newly formed cerebrospinal fluid in the system.


1984 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Love ◽  
Ronald A. Leslie

✓ Lymph was collected from cervical lymphatic trunks of anesthetized cats under conditions of normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure and again when the CSF pressure was elevated by infusing artificial CSF into the subarachnoid space at the cisterna magna. There was an immediate increase in lymph flow on initiation of the CSF infusion, but this increase was not maintained although the CSF infusion continued. Lymph protein concentrations fell when the CSF infusion started and remained depressed while the infusion of CSF continued. It is postulated that under steady-state conditions much of the CSF leaving the subarachnoid space via the cranial nerves enters the capillaries from the extravascular spaces, and that large molecules from the CSF, such as proteins, return to the blood via the lymphatic system.


1973 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 480-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamu Sato ◽  
Makoto Hara ◽  
Takehiko Asai ◽  
Ryuichi Tsugane ◽  
Naoki Kageyama

✓ The effect of intravenous dexamethasone on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) production was studied in dogs by a method of caudocephalad perfusion of the spinal subarachnoid space with an inulin-containing buffer. The CSF production rate began to reduce immediately after the injection of 0.15 mg/kg and attained a maximal reduction of 50% in 50 minutes.


1997 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 738-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaoru Sakatani ◽  
Masaki Kashiwasake-Jibu ◽  
Yoshinori Taka ◽  
Shijie Wang ◽  
Huancong Zuo ◽  
...  

✓ The authors have developed a noninvasive optical method to image the subarachnoid space and cerebrospinal fluid pathways in vivo based on the near-infrared fluorescence of indocyanine green (ICG). The ICG was bound to purified lipoproteins (ICG—lipoprotein) and injected into the subarachnoid space of neonatal and adult rats. The ICG fluorescence was detected by a cooled charge-coupled device camera. After injection of ICG—lipoprotein into the cerebral subarachnoid space of the neonatal rat, ICG fluorescence was clearly detected at the injection site through the skull and skin. The ICG fluorescence was observed in the cerebellum and the lumbar spinal cord 1 and 8 hours postinjection, respectively. After injection of ICG—lipoprotein into the lumbar spinal subarachnoid space of an adult rat, ICG fluorescence was observed from the injection site to the thoracic levels along the spinal subarachnoid space. In addition, with the rat's head tilted downward, ICG fluorescence had extended to the cerebral subarachnoid space by 1 hour postinjection. The ICG fluorescence imaging of the cerebral subarachnoid space demonstrated an increase in fluorescence intensity around the lambdoid suture and the forebrain. On dissection of the rat brain the former location was identified as the supracerebellar cistern and the latter as the olfactory cistern. The results of this study are the first to demonstrate that an optical technique is applicable to imaging of the subarachnoid space and cerebrospinal fluid pathways in vivo. In addition, ICG—lipoprotein provides a sensitive optical tracer for imaging extravascular biological structures. Finally, ICG fluorescence imaging does not require an intricate imaging system because ICG is localized near the surface of the body.


1979 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles G. H. West

✓ A rare case of metastasis to the spinal subarachnoid space from a non-neuraxial primary tumor is presented. Dissemination was shown by computerized tomography to be via the cerebrospinal fluid from secondary deposits in the central nervous system and meninges. This route would seem to be the most common mode of spread to the spinal subarachnoid space.


1976 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter V. Hall ◽  
John E. Kalsbeck ◽  
Henry N. Wellman ◽  
Robert L. Campbell ◽  
Sidney Lewis

✓ Kaolin-induced hydrosyringomyelia in dogs has been investigated by radioisotope ventriculography using both cerebrospinal fluid radioassay and scintigraphy. The hydromyelic central canal can be differentiated from the spinal subarachnoid space by scintigraphy. Serial studies show that hydromyelia arises rapidly to decompress the associated hydrocephalus in surviving animals. Syringomyelia, after a delayed onset, originates from the enlarged central canal. Radioisotope ventriculography may be a useful clinical aid in the diagnosis of hydrosyringomyelia.


1972 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. F. Deck ◽  
V. Deonarine ◽  
D. Gordon Potts

✓ Experiments were performed on dogs to estimate the effect of intraventricular air on the rate of cerebrospinal fluid formation. The rate of formation was measured satisfactorily in eight beagle dogs before and after the introduction of air using ventriculocisternal perfusion of artificial cerebrospinal fluid containing 14C-labelled inulin. Statistical analysis of rates of cerebrospinal fluid formation estimated half hourly indicated that there was little or no change after the introduction of air.


1974 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard M. Eisenberg ◽  
James E. McLennan ◽  
Keasley Welch

✓ Cats were made hydrocephalic by cisternal instillation of kaolin. Three to 8 weeks later it was found by perfusion between the ventricular system and the spinal subarachnoid space that communication had been reestablished through a demonstrably dilated central canal of the spinal cord. Absorption of fluid from the ventricular system, measured both by ventriculospinal perfusion and, after ligation of the spinal cord, by perfusion between the lateral ventricles, was found to be indistinguishable from zero over a wide range of ventricular pressure.


1972 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sixto Obrador

✓ A case of empty sella syndrome due to a benign intrasellar cyst leads the author to a review of variations in this syndrome. Association with intrasellar diverticuli of the subarachnoid space, deficiencies of the diaphragma sellae, and small pituitary glands are identified. Its relationship with certain headaches in women and to unexplained nontraumatic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea are discussed.


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