Title : Utilization of glutamine and of TCA cycle constituents as precursors for transmitter glutamate and GABA.

Pub. Date : 1993

PMID : 7805591






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1 The key reason that an interaction with astrocytes is essential is that both pyruvate carboxylase, the major enzyme in the brain for net synthesis of tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates, and glutamine synthetase, the enzyme forming glutamine from glutamate, are specifically located in astrocytes, but not in neurons. Tricarboxylic Acids pyruvate carboxylase Homo sapiens