Glutamate–glutamine cycle
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title:
Glutamate–glutamine cycle
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In biochemistry, the glutamate–glutamine cycle is a cyclic metabolic pathway which maintains an adequate supply of the neurotransmitter glutamate in the central nervous system. Neurons are unable to synthesize either the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate, or the inhibitory GABA from glucose. Discoveries of glutamate and glutamine pools within intercellular compartments led to suggestions of the glutamate–glutamine cycle working between neurons and astrocytes. The glutamate/GABA–glutamine cyc
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Biochemical pathway that maintains glutamate supply in CNS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate%E2%80%93glutamine_cycle
date created:
2008-10-02T00:45:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T03:31:04Z
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