Astrocyte glutamine synthetase: Pivotal in health and disease

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1518-1524

  Rose, Christopher F ^a   Verkhratsky, Alexei ^b   Parpura, Vladimir ^b,c,d  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

Author keywords

aminobutyric acid (GABA); Ammonia; Astrocyte; Glutamate; Glutamine; Glutamine Synthetase

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ADENOSINE; AMMONIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE ISOENZYME 2; ASPARTIC ACID; CELL ENZYME; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PYRUVIC ACID; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOSOL; DEPRESSION; DETOXIFICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPILEPSY; EXOCYTOSIS; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE MUTATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPOXIA; MACROGLIA; MITOCHONDRION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEIZURE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME;

AMMONIA; ASTROCYTES; DISEASE; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HEALTH; HUMANS;

EID: 84887901113     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20130237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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