Anaerobic changes in the energy metabolism of mouse brain during the recovery from acute radiation sickness

There months after whole-body irradiation of mice with a sublethal dose of 5 Gy a study was made of some indices of energy metabolism like tissue respiration, oxidative phosphorylation, and formation of lactic acid in the survived brain homogenate. Revealed were (a) the diminution of coupling of tissue respiration to oxidative phosphorylation, the rate of oxygen consumption and the level of cyanoresistant respiration being constant, (b) the increase in the rate of glycolysis in anaerobic and particularly, in aerobic conditions, and (c) reduction of the Pasteur and Crabtree effects. The above mentioned changes in the brain energy metabolism seem to be a manifestation of the process of the reduced metabolism formation in the nervous tissue at the remote tims after irradiation