Journal
JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY
Volume 109, Issue -, Pages 24-29Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2009.05941.x
Keywords
compartmentation; energy metabolism; fluorocitrate; microdialysis; oxidation
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- NICHD NIH HHS [P01 HD016596-24, P01 HD016596-22S1, P01 HD016596-220002, P01 HD016596-22, P01 HD016596-21, P01 HD016596-230002, P01 HD016596-23, P01 HD016596-210002, P01 HD016596-240002] Funding Source: Medline
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This review summarizes microdialysis studies that address the question of which compounds serve as energy sources in the brain. Microdialysis was used to introduce C-14-labeled glucose, lactate, pyruvate, glutamate, glutamine, and acetate into the interstitial fluid of the brain to observe their metabolism to (CO2)-C-14. Although glucose uptake from the systemic system supplies the carbon source for these compounds, compounds synthesized from glucose by the brain are subject to recycling including complete metabolism to CO2. Therefore, the brain utilizes multiple compounds in its domain to provide the energy needed to fulfill its function. The physiological conditions controlling metabolism and the contribution of compartmentation into different brain regions, cell types, and subcellular spaces are still unresolved. The aconitase inhibitor fluorocitrate, with a lower inhibition threshold in glial cells, was used to identify the proportion of lactate and glucose that was oxidized in glial cells versus neurons. The fluorocitrate data suggest that glial and neuronal cells are capable of utilizing both lactate and glucose for energy metabolism.
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