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Glutamate Pays Its Own Way in Astrocytes
In vitro and in vivo studies have shown that glutamate can be oxidized for energy by brain astrocytes. The ability to harvest the energy from glutamate provides astrocytes with a mechanism to offset the high ATP cost of the uptake of glutamate from the synaptic cleft. This brief review focuses on ox...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3863760/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24379804 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2013.00191 |