Regional transport of phenylalanine acro
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Michael Pollay
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Article
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1976
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract In adult rats, using the single‐pass brain uptake technique with a tritiated water standard, L‐phenylalanine was shown to enter brain across the blood‐brain barrier (BBB) by both a saturable and diffusionary process. A kinetic analysis of the data revealed Michaelis constant (K~a~) of 0