Desperately seeking sugar: Glial cells as hypoglycemia sensors

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3403-3405

  Klip, Amira ^a   Hawkins, Meredith ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 2;

GLIA CELL; GLUCAGON RELEASE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CELL MEMBRANE; GLUCAGON; GLUCAGON-SECRETING CELLS; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 2; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS;

EID: 31044438423     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI27208     Document Type: Review

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