The astroglial ASCT2 amino acid transporter as a mediator of glutamine efflux

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2184-2194

  Bröer, Angelika ^a   Brookes, Neville ^b   Ganapathy, Vadivel ^c   Dimmer, Kai Stefan ^a   Wagner, Carsten A ^a   Lang, Florian ^a   Bröer, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid transport; Astrocytes; Glutamate glutamine cycle; System ASC

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMINE; LEUCINE; SERINE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MACROGLIA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0038807482     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1999.02184.x     Document Type: Article

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