Glutamate and the biology of gliomas
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John de Groot; Harald Sontheimer
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Several important and previously unrecognized roles for the neurotransmitter glutamate in the biology of primary brain tumors have recently been elucidated. Glutamate is produced and released from glioma cells via the system x~c~^β^ cystine glutamate transporter as a byproduct of glutat