Effects of ammonia on the anaplerotic pathway and amino acid metabolism in the brain: An ex vivo 13C NMR spectroscopic study of rats after administering [2-13C] glucose with or without ammonium acetate

Brain Research

Volumn 841, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 11-19

  Kanamatsu, Tomoyuki ^a   Tsukada, Yasuzo ^a  

^a SOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

13C NMR spectroscopy; 2 13C Glucose; Anaplerotic pathway; GABA; Glutamate; Glutamine

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM ACETATE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARBON 13; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE;

AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETATES; AMINO ACIDS; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN; CARBON ISOTOPES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033547045     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01772-2     Document Type: Article

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