Alanine metabolism, transport, and cycling in the brain

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1758-1770

  Bröer, Stefan ^a   Bröer, Angelika ^a   Hansen, Jonas T ^b   Bubb, William A ^b   Balcar, Vladimir J ^b   Nasrallah, Fatima A ^c   Garner, Brett ^c   Rae, Caroline ^b,c,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

13C NMR spectroscopy; Glutamine transport; LAT2; Nitrogen metabolism

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOBICYCLO[2.2.1]HEPTANE 2 CARBOXYLIC ACID; ALANINE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CYCLOLEUCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; GUINEA PIG; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SYNAPTOSOME;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM Y+; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUINEA PIGS; MICE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OOCYTES; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOMES;

CAVIA;

EID: 34548240039     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.04654.x     Document Type: Article

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