Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter deals with the requirements on the modeling that are necessary to understand, in order to use in vivo NMR spectroscopy for the assessment of glutamatergic metabolism in the intact brain in vivo . It discusses some studies that includes: (1) the demonstration that brain glycogen is an important store of glucose equivalents in the brain, providing significant fuel during hypoglycemia; (2) the demonstration of slow brain glycogen metabolism in non-activated awake brain; (3) the presence of significant anaplerosis in ...
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Biochemistry
Neuroscience