Microglial glutamate uptake is coupled to glutathione synthesis and glutamate release

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1063-1070

  Persson, Mikael ^a   Sandberg, Mats ^b   Hansson, Elisabeth ^a   Rönnbäck, Lars ^a  

^a Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Lipopolysaccharide; Primary culture; Rat; Tumour necrosis factor alpha; X C system

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; METABOLITE; MICROGLIA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICROGLIA; OXIDANTS; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33747607938     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04974.x     Document Type: Article

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