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Metabolism and Function in Nerve Fibers

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Metabolic Turnover in the Nervous System

Abstract

The preparations of intact cells that have been used in the past to study metabolism and function in nervous tissue vary in complexity from the human brain in vivo (1,2) to isolated single nerve fibers of invertebrates. (3–7) The extent to which results obtained with any one type of preparation are applicable to the others is an open question because there is considerable evidence of differences in the biochemistry of different parts of the nervous system. (8) However, as will be discussed below in comparing myelinated and nonmyelinated fibers, some seemingly qualitative differences in metabolism, such as the enormous difference in sensitivity to glucose deprivation, may be more apparent than real.

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Greengard, P., Ritchie, J.M. (1971). Metabolism and Function in Nerve Fibers. In: Metabolic Turnover in the Nervous System. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7166-7_10

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