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Journal Article
Stimulation-induced increases in cerebral blood flow and local capillary vasoconstriction depend on conducted vascular responses
2018
Overview
Functional neuroimaging, such as fMRI, is based on coupling neuronal activity and accompanying changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) and metabolism. However, the relationship between CBF and events at the level of the penetrating arterioles and capillaries is not well established. Recent findings suggest an active role of capillaries in CBF control, and pericytes on capillaries may be major regulators of CBF and initiators of functional imaging signals. Here, using two-photon microscopy of brains in living mice, we demonstrate that stimulation-evoked increases in synaptic activity in the mouse somatosensory cortex evokes capillary dilation starting mostly at the first- or second-order capillary, propagating upstream and downstream at 5–20 μm/s. Therefore, our data support an active role of pericytes in cerebrovascular control. The gliotransmitter ATP applied to first- and second-order capillaries by micropipette puffing induced dilation, followed by constriction, which also propagated at 5–20 μm/s. ATP-induced capillary constriction was blocked by purinergic P2 receptors. Thus, conducted vascular responses in capillaries may be a previously unidentified modulator of cerebrovascular function and functional neuroimaging signals.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Subject
Adenosine Triphosphate - metabolism
/ Animals
/ Blood
/ Cerebrovascular Circulation - physiology
/ Dilation
/ Female
/ Functional magnetic resonance imaging
/ Functional Neuroimaging - methods
/ Male
/ Mice
/ Receptors, Purinergic P2 - metabolism
/ Somatosensory Cortex - blood supply
/ Somatosensory Cortex - metabolism
/ Somatosensory Cortex - physiology
