Astrocyte Metabolism of [15N]Glutamine: Implications for the Glutamine-Glutamate Cycle
✍ Scribed by Marc Yudkoff; Itzhak Nissim; David Pleasure
- Book ID
- 111174676
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 895 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-3042
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