Glutamine stimulates γ-aminobutyric acid synthesis in synaptosomes but other putative astrocyte-to-neuron shuttle substrates do not

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 129-133

  Battaglioli, Gino ^a,b   Martin, David L ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminobutyric acid (GABA) synthesis; Glutamate; Glutamine; Shuttle substrates; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0029887177     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12606-9     Document Type: Article

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