Photoperiodic regulation of glycogen metabolism, glycolysis, and glutamine synthesis in tanycytes of the Siberian hamster suggests novel roles of tanycytes in hypothalamic function

GLIA

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1695-1705

  Nilaweera, Kanishka ^a,b   Herwig, Annika ^a   Bolborea, Matei ^a,b   Campbell, Gill ^a   Mayer, Claus D ^a   Morgan, Peter J ^a   Ebling, Francis J P ^b   Barrett, Perry ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Melatonin; Monocarboxylate transporter; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; GLYCOLYSIS; HAMSTER; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TANYCYTE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPENDYMA; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOLYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEUROPIL; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; PYRUVIC ACID;

EID: 80052821222     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.21216     Document Type: Article

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