“Hypoxic pockets” (VIDEO)
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In mice we observed the occurrence of spatial and temporal defined local sinks in the brain tissue oxygen levels, a phenomenon we termed “hypoxic pockets”. Those hypoxic pockets lasted on average 50 seconds and covered around X% of the recording area. In further experiments we proved that those hypoxic pockets originate in local occlusions of blood capillaries in the brain which interrupt cerebral blood flow and thus lead to hypoxia in the tissue around the occlusion.
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Maiken Nedergaard, Felix Beinlich
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