Brain-to-blood active transport of β-alanine across the blood-brain barrier

FEBS Letters

Volumn 400, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 131-135

  Komura, Junko ^a   Tamai, Ikumi ^a   Senmaru, Mizuho ^a   Terasaki, Tetsuya ^a,b   Sai, Yoshimichi ^a   Tsuji, Akira ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

active transport; alanine, ; antiluminal uptake; blood brain barrier; brain capillary endothelial cell; taurine

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; AZIDES; BETA-ALANINE; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; IONS; OUABAIN; SODIUM AZIDE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; UNCOUPLING AGENTS;

EID: 0031013754     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(96)01366-X     Document Type: Article

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