Extracellular conversion of guanine-based purines to guanosine specifically enhances astrocyte glutamate uptake

Brain Research

Volumn 972, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 84-89

  Dos Santos Frizzo, Marcos Emílio ^a   Soares, Félix Alexandre Antunes ^a   Dall'Onder, Leonara Patrícia ^a   Lara, Diogo Rizzato ^b   Swanson, Raymond A ^c   Souza, Diogo Onofre ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenosine; Astrocyte; Cell culture; Glutamate uptake; Guanosine; Nucleotide

Indexed keywords

5' NUCLEOTIDASE; GUANINE; GUANOSINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; STIMULATION;

EID: 0037449176     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(03)02506-X     Document Type: Article

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