title: Brain uptake of glutamate: food for thought.
abstract: Glutamate transporters in cells of the central nervous system play a key role, not only in providing glutamate for metabolic and protein synthesis purposes, but also in terminating glutamate's synaptic actions and keeping the extracellular glutamate concentration below levels that cause neuronal death. Recent advances in our understanding of how glutamate transport is powered allow a prediction of how glutamate transport will fail in stroke, releasing excess glutamate that triggers the death of neurons, thereby causing mental and physical handicap.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University College London, England.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Attwell
mesh_terms: D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters / Q000378:metabolism; D027322:Amino Acid Transport System X-AG; D000818:Animals; D000838:Anions / Q000378:metabolism; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000378:metabolism; D018698:Glutamic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000378:metabolism; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; D027322:Amino Acid Transport System X-AG; D000838:Anions; D007473:Ion Channels; D018698:Glutamic Acid