Glucose replaces glutamate as energy substrate to fuel glutamate uptake in glutamate dehydrogenase-deficient astrocytes

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1093-1100

  Pajecka, Kamilla ^a   Nissen, Jakob D ^a   Stridh, Malin H ^a   Skytt, Dorte M ^a   Schousboe, Arne ^a   Waagepetersen, Helle S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Energy; GDH; Glutamate; SiRNA; Uptake

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; 2-DEOXYGLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ENERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; INBRED MOUSE STRAIN; METABOLISM;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84929654881     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23568     Document Type: Article

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