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How Glutamate Is Managed by the Blood–Brain Barrier

A facilitative transport system exists on the blood–brain barrier (BBB) that has been tacitly assumed to be a path for glutamate entry to the brain. However, glutamate is a non-essential amino acid whose brain content is much greater than plasma, and studies in vivo show that glutamate does not ente...

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Autores principales: Hawkins, Richard A., Viña, Juan R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5192417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27740595
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology5040037