NADH augments blood flow in physiologically activated retina and visual cortex

Male 0301 basic medicine Retinal Vessels NAD Rats Rats, Sprague-Dawley 03 medical and health sciences NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester 0302 clinical medicine Pyruvic Acid Animals Lactic Acid Energy Metabolism Visual Cortex
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0307458100 Publication Date: 2004-01-13T18:28:06Z
ABSTRACT
The mechanism(s) that increase retinal and visual cortex blood flows in response to visual stimulation are poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that increased transfer of electrons and protons from glucose to cytosolic free NAD + , reducing it to NADH, evoked by increased energy metabolism, fuels redox-signaling pathways that augment flow. The near-equilibrium between free cytosolic NADH/NAD + and lactate/pyruvate ratios established by lactate dehydrogenase predicts that transfer of additional electrons and protons from injected lactate to NAD + will augment the elevated blood flows in stimulated retina and cortex, whereas transfer of electrons and protons from NADH to injected pyruvate will attenuate the elevated flows. These predictions were tested and confirmed in rats. Increased flows evoked by stimulation also were prevented by inhibition of nitric oxide synthase. These findings support an important role for cytosolic free NADH in fueling a signaling cascade that increases • NO production, which augments blood flow in photostimulated retina and visual cortex.
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