Nucleoside transporter expression and fu
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Liang Peng; Rong Huang; Albert C.H. Yu; King Y. Fung; Michel P. Rathbone; Leif H
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Uptake of purine and pyrimidine nucleosides in astrocytes is important for several reasons: (1) uptake of nucleosides contributes to nucleic acid synthesis; (2) astrocytes synthesize AMP, ADP, and ATP from adenosine and GTP from guanosine; and (3) adenosine and guanosine function as neu