Role of astrocytes in glutamate homeostasis: Implications for excitotoxicity

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 429, Issue , 1997, Pages 195-206

  Schousboe, Arne ^a   Sonnewald, Ursula ^b   Civenni, Gianluca ^c   Gegelashvili, Georgi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN METABOLISM; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031464901     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-9551-6_14     Document Type: Article

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