Metabolic coupling between glia and neurons is necessary for maintaining respiratory activity in transverse medullary slices of neonatal mouse

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 856-862

  Hülsmann, Swen ^a   Oku, Yoshitaka ^b   Zhang, Weiqi ^a   Richter, Diethelm W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Fluoroacetate; Glutamine transfer; Methionine sulfoximine; Neuronal network

Indexed keywords

FLUOROACETIC ACID; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; ISOCITRIC ACID; METHIONINE SULFOXIMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN STEM; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BURST; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIMETABOLITES; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; FEMALE; FLUOROACETATES; GLUTAMINE; ISOCITRATES; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; MICE; NERVE NET; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 0038726991     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00973.x     Document Type: Article

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