Up-regulation of glutamine synthesis in microglia activated with endotoxin

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 591, Issue , 2015, Pages 99-104

  Nakajima, Kazuyuki ^a   Kanamatsu, Tomoyuki ^a   Takezawa, Yosuke ^a   Kohsaka, Shinichi ^b  

^a SOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glutamic acid; Glutamine synthetase; Microglia; Nuclear magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICROGLIA; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84923205083     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2015.02.021     Document Type: Article

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