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Magnetic resonance imaging study of extracellular fluid tracer movement in brains of immature rats with hydrocephalus

2000· article· en· W2394690625 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueNeurological Research · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicCerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCisterna magnaCerebrospinal fluidHydrocephalusExtracellularExtracellular fluidMagnetic resonance imagingWhite matterCortex (anatomy)Cerebral cortexChemistryCentral nervous systemAnatomyMedicinePathologyNeuroscienceEndocrinologyBiologyRadiologyBiochemistry

Abstract

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Hydrocephalus is associated with brain compression and accumulation of neurotransmitter waste products in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid. We postulated that the extracellular compartment is compressed and specifically hypothesized that extracellular fluid tracer movement through brain would differ between control and hydrocephalic rats. Gadolinium diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-DTPA) was injected into the cerebral cortex of 4-week-old rats, 7-11 days after induction of hydrocephalus by kaolin injection into the cisterna magna. The movement of this soluble paramagnetic compound was followed over successive timed intervals from 20 min to 180 min with T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Non-hydrocephalic controls exhibited greater spread of the tracer and greater change in T1-weighted signal intensity in the ipsilateral cortex than hydrocephalic animals. Hydrocephalic animals exhibited preferential accumulation of tracer in edematous white matter. Gd-DTPA penetrated the lateral ventricles within 30 min in both control and hydrocephalic rats. The results suggest that there is a relative impairment of extracellular fluid movement through the cerebral cortex of young hydrocephalic rats.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.726
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.278 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it