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Deriving the Time Course of Glutamate Clearance with a Deconvolution Analysis of Astrocytic Transporter Currents
Published on: August 7, 2013
[A multichannel transporter for glucose and amino acid transport]
Abstract:
The recording of the short-circuit current responses to glucose or glycine was used to monitor active nutrient transport in the rat small intestine from mucose to serose. The coupled cotransporter for Na+ glucose and glycine was shown to consist of the central ion channel and a few nutrient channels around it. It seems that the combination of some types of ion channels with various types of nutrient channels leads to a formation of multi-channel transporters with different ion-nutrient specifics.
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