A dogma-breaking concept: Glutamate oxidation in astrocytes is the source of lactate during aerobic glycolysis in resting subjects

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 395-398

  Dienel, Gerald A ^a   McKenna, Mary C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OXALOACETIC ACID; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID;

AEROBIC GLYCOLYSIS; AEROBIC METABOLISM; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REST; STEADY STATE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; ANIMAL; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; REST;

EID: 84922394350     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnc.12835     Document Type: Article

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