Ménage trois: The role of neurotransmitters in the energy metabolism of astrocytes, glutamatergic, and GABAergic neurons

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1472-1483

  Calvetti, Daniela ^a   Somersalo, Erkki ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

energy metabolism; glucose; lactate; mathematical modeling; neuronal glial interaction

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ASPARTATE GLUTAMATE CARRIER PROTEIN; CARBON; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); NEUROTRANSMITTER; OXOGLUTARATE CARRIER PROTEIN; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STEADY STATE; STOICHIOMETRY;

ASTROCYTES; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOSOL; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GLUTAMATES; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS;

EID: 84864559257     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2012.31     Document Type: Article

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