In vivo NMR Studies of the Glutamate Neurotransmitter Flux and Neuroenergetics: Implications for Brain Function

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2003, Pages 401-427

  Rothman, Douglas L ^a   Behar, Kevin L ^a   Hyder, Fahmeed ^a   Shulman, Robert G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

13C NMR; Cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Neuronal glial interaction; Neurophysiology

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CELL ACTIVITY; ENERGY; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; GLIA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS;

EID: 0038650885     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.65.092101.142131     Document Type: Review

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