A quantitative overview of glucose dynamics in the gliovascular unit

GLIA

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1222-1237

  Barros, L Felipe ^a   Bittner, Carla X ^a,b   Loaiza, Anitsi ^a,b   Porras, Omar H ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTÍFICOS CECS   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; GLUT; GLUT1 deficiency; Hexokinase; Hypoglycemia; Mathematical modeling

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); DEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; HEXOKINASE;

ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT PROTEINS, FACILITATIVE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 1; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NEUROGLIA;

EID: 34547823401     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.20375     Document Type: Review

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