Editors:
- Provides a detailed discussion of current research on the glutamate-glutamine cycle
- Leading experts cover the activity and regulation of relevant enzymes
- Suitable for students and researchers interested in metabolic coupling between astrocytes and neurons
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Neurobiology (NEUROBIOL, volume 13)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
A number of leading experts in neuroscience including intermediary metabolism, enzymology and transporter physiology have contributed to this book which provides comprehensive discussions of these different aspects of the functional importance of the glutamate-glutamine cycle coupling homeostasis of glutamatergic, excitatory neurotransmission to basic aspects of brain energy metabolism. This book will be of particular importance for students as well as professionals interested in these fundamental processes involved in brain function and dysfunction.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Arne Schousboe
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Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Ursula Sonnewald
About the editors
Ursula Sonnewald received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (Canada) and subsequent to studies in Hamburg (Germany) and Canada; post-doctoral periods were spent in Salt Lake City, University of Utah, USA, in Copenhagen at the Carlsberg Research Center, Denmark, and at The Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, USA. For fiveyears she worked in the CNS Department of Novo Nordisk developing antiepileptic drugs. During this period she synthesized the GABA uptake inhibitor Tiagabin, which is on the market as an antiepileptic drug and as a tool for basic research on GABA function and metabolism. In 1990 she moved to Norway, and was amongst the first in the area of metabolic studies of brain cell metabolism using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in collaboration with the experts on nervous cell cultures Drs. Arne Schousboe and Niels Westergaard. Since 1996 she has been a full Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She applied MRS to animal models of epilepsy, stroke, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s and other neurological disorders. Exciting new results have been obtained pertinent to the area of neurodegeneration. She has developed tools to analyze mitochondrial function and has applied those to study dysfunction in the above mentioned diseases.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Glutamate/GABA-Glutamine Cycle
Book Subtitle: Amino Acid Neurotransmitter Homeostasis
Editors: Arne Schousboe, Ursula Sonnewald
Series Title: Advances in Neurobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45096-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45094-0Published: 21 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83208-1Published: 30 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45096-4Published: 25 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2190-5215
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5223
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 416
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences