Metabolism of glycine in primary astroglial cells: Synthesis of creatine, serine, and glutathione

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 835-840

  Dringen, Ralf ^a   Verleysdonk, Stephan ^a   Hamprecht, Bernd ^a   Willker, Wieland ^b   Leibfritz, Dieter ^b   Brand, Annette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creatine; Glial metabolism; Glutathione; Glycine; NMR spectroscopy; Serine

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCINE; SERINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CELL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0031913691     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1998.70020835.x     Document Type: Article

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