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Arne Schousboe1, Helle S Waagepetersen.
Abstract
Glutamate homeostasis in the brain is maintained by its well balanced release, uptake and metabolism. It appears that astrocytes play a prominent role in this context since they possess a very powerful battery of glutamate transporters. Thus, malfunction of astrocytic glutamate transporters will lead to an excessively high extracellular glutamate concentration which may result in neurodegeneration caused by the excitotoxic action of glutamate.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16371316 DOI: 10.1007/BF03033975
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurotox Res ISSN: 1029-8428 Impact factor: 3.911