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Marcus E. Raichle, MD; Jerome B. Posner, MD; Fred Plum, MD

Arch Neurol. 1970;23(5):394-403.

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IT IS WELL established that the arterial carbon dioxide tension (Pco₂) is an important factor controlling cerebral vascular resistance (CVR) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) in healthy animals and man. An acute rise in Pco₂ causes a decrease in CVR which increases the CBF, and a fall in Pco₂ has the opposite effect. However, during sustained alteration of Pco₂, the CBF and absolute carbon dioxide tension often fail to correlate closely, and much recent evidence summarized by Lassen¹ suggests that alterations of the pH of the brain's extracellular space mediate the cerebral vascular response to carbon dioxide and that brain interstitial fluid pH is the major regulator of CBF. The pH hypothesis is physiologically attractive, but evidence against it comes from a series of experiments in several laboratories in which prolonged passive hyperventilation of animals^2-5 and man⁶ producing sustained, constant arterial hypocapnia . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Department of Neurology, the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Neuropsychiatric Service, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York. Dr. Raichle is now at the US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base, Tex.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 26, 1970.

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