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Modelling blood flow and metabolism in the piglet brain during hypoxia-ischaemia: simulating pH changes.

Journal:
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Year:
2013
Authors:
Hapuarachchi, Tharindi et al.
Affiliation:
University College London · United Kingdom

Abstract

We describe the extension of a computational model of blood flow and metabolism in the piglet brain to investigate changes in neonatal intracellular brain pH during hypoxia-ischemia (HI). The model is able to simulate near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) measurements obtained from HI experiments conducted in piglets. We adopt a method of using (31)P-MRS data to estimate of intracellular pH and compare measured pH and oxygenation with their modelled counterparts. We show that both NIRS and MRS measurements are predicted well in the new version of the model.

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Original publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23852512/