Use of fluorocitrate and fluoroacetate i
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Frode Fonnum; Arnt Johnsen; BjΓΈrnar Hassel
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Fluoroacetate and its toxic metabolite fluorocitrate cause inhibition of aconitase. In brain tissue, both substances are preferentially taken up by glial cells and leads to inhibition of the glial TCA cycle. It is important to realise, however, that the glia-specificity of these compounds depends bo