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JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM
Volume 33, Issue 12, Pages 1843-1845Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2013.168
Keywords
astrocytes; energy metabolism; glucose; neurochemistry; neuronal-glial interaction
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- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [SAF2010-20008, RETICEF-RD12/0043/0021]
- European Regional Development Fund
- Junta de Castilla y Leon [SA003U13]
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The rates of glucose oxidized at glycolysis and pentose-phosphate pathway (PPP) in neurons are controversial. Using [3-H-3]-, [1-C-14]-, and [6-C-14)glucose to estimate fluxes through these pathways in resting, intact rat cortical primary neurons, we found that the rate of glucose oxidized through PPP was, apparently, similar to 14% of total glucose metabolized. However, inhibition of PPP rate-limiting step, glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) dehydrogenase, increased approximately twofold the glycolytic rate; and, knockdown of phosphoglucose isomerase increased similar to 1.8-fold the PPP rate. Thus, in neurons, a considerable fraction of fructose-6-phosphate returning from the PPP contributes to the G6P pool that re-enters PPP, largely underestimating its flux.
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