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Inversion of neurovascular coupling by subarachnoid blood depends on large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ (BK) channels.
Koide, Masayo; Bonev, Adrian D; Nelson, Mark T; Wellman, George C
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2012;109(21):E1387-95.
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Abstract
The cellular events that cause ischemic neurological damage following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) have remained elusive. We report that subarachnoid blood profoundly impacts communication within the neurovascular unit-neurons, astrocytes, and arterioles-causing inversion of neurovascular coupling. Elevation of astrocytic endfoot Ca(2+) to ∼400 nM by neuronal stimulation or to ∼300 nM by Ca(2+) uncaging dilated parenchymal arterioles in control brain slices but caused vasoconstriction in post-SAH brain slices. Inhibition of K(+) efflux via astrocytic endfoot large-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) (BK) channels prevented both neurally evoked vasodilation (control) and vasoconstriction (SAH). Consistent with the dual vasodilator/vasoconstrictor action of extracellular K(+) ([K(+)](o)), [K(+)](o) <10 mM dilated and [K(+)](o) >20 mM constricted isolated brain cortex parenchymal arterioles with or without SAH. Notably, elevation of external K(+) to 10 mM caused vasodilation in brain slices from control animals but caused a modest constriction in brain slices from SAH model rats; this latter effect was reversed by BK channel inhibition, which restored K(+)-induced dilations. Importantly, the amplitude of spontaneous astrocytic Ca(2+) oscillations was increased after SAH, with peak Ca(2+) reaching ∼490 nM. Our data support a model in which SAH increases the amplitude of spontaneous astrocytic Ca(2+) oscillations sufficiently to activate endfoot BK channels and elevate [K(+)](o) in the restricted perivascular space. Abnormally elevated basal [K(+)](o) combined with further K(+) efflux stimulated by neuronal activity elevates [K(+)](o) above the dilation/constriction threshold, switching the polarity of arteriolar responses to vasoconstriction. Inversion of neurovascular coupling may contribute to the decreased cerebral blood flow and development of neurological deficits that commonly follow SAH.
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- P01 HL095488, NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
- P01 HL095488, NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
- P20 RR16435, NCRR NIH HHS, United States
- R01 DK065947, NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
- R01 HL044455, NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
- R01 HL077378, NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
- R01 HL078983, NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
- R01 HL078983, NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
- R01 HL078983-05S1, NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
- R37 DK053832, NIDDK NIH HHS, United States