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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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Autor principal: McKenna, Mary C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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