Mechanisms of glutamate metabolic signaling in retinal glial (Muller) cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1809-1821

  Poitry, Serge ^a   Poitry Yamate, Carol ^a   Ueberfeld, Joern ^b   MacLeish, Peter R ^c   Tsacopoulos, Marcos ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Centre Médical Universitaire   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Biosensor; Fluorescence imaging; Glutamine synthetase; Lactate; NADH; Retina

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; LACTIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CELL FUNCTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GLIA CELL; GLYCOLYSIS; MUELLER CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034161267     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-05-01809.2000     Document Type: Article

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