Glutamate transport and metabolism in astrocytes

GLIA

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 56-63

  Sonnewald, Ursula ^a,c   Westergaard, Niels ^b   Schousboe, Arne ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c DMF   (Norway)

Author keywords

13C NMR spectroscopy; Aspartate; Astrocytes; Glucose; Glutamate; Glutamine; Lactate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031239422     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1136(199709)21:1<56::aid-glia6>3.0.co;2-#     Document Type: Article

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