| Vascularization of cytochrome oxidase-rich blobs in the primary visual cortex of squirrel and macaque monkeys. | |
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PMID: 21273409 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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The close correlation between energy supply by blood vessels and energy consumption by cellular processes in the brain is the basis of blood flow-related functional imaging techniques. Regional differences in vascular density can be detected using high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging. Therefore, inhomogeneities in vascularization might help to identify anatomically distinct areas noninvasively in vivo. It was reported previously that cytochrome oxidase-rich blobs in the striate cortex of squirrel monkeys are characterized by a notably higher vascular density (42% higher than interblob regions). However, blobs have so far never been identified in vivo on the basis of their vascular density. Here, we analyzed blobs of the primary visual cortex of squirrel monkeys and macaques with respect to the relationship between vascularization and cytochrome oxidase activity. By double staining with cytochrome oxidase enzyme histochemistry to define the blobs and collagen type IV immunohistochemistry to quantify the blood vessels, a close correlation between oxidative metabolism and vascularization was confirmed and quantified in detail. The vascular length density in cytochrome oxidase blobs was on average 4.5% higher than in the interblob regions, a difference almost one order of magnitude smaller than previously reported. Thus, the vascular density that is closely associated with local average metabolic activity is a structural equivalent of cerebral metabolism and blood flow. However, the quantitative differences in vascularization between blob and interblob regions are small and below the detectability threshold of the noninvasive hemodynamic imaging methods of today. |
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Anna Lena Keller; Almut Schüz; Nikos K Logothetis; Bruno Weber |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Volume: 31 ISSN: 1529-2401 ISO Abbreviation: J. Neurosci. Publication Date: 2011 Jan |
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Created Date: 2011-01-28 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8102140 Medline TA: J Neurosci Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1246-53 Citation Subset: IM |
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Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany, Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, and Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland. |
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