Lactate and glucose as energy substrates and their role in traumatic brain injury and therapy

Future Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 209-228

  Alessandri, Beat ^a   Gugliotta, Marinella ^b   Levasseur, Joseph E ^c   Bullock, M Ross ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Energy on demand; Enzyme kinetics; Glucose; Glycolysis; Lactate; Lactate transporters; Metabolism; Neurons; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 3; LACTATE SODIUM; LACTIC ACID; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER 2; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER 4;

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG UPTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENERGY RESOURCE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 67149100934     PISSN: 14796708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/14796708.4.2.209     Document Type: Review

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