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Regional transport of phenylalanine across the blood-brain barrier

✍ Scribed by Michael Pollay

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1976
Tongue
English
Weight
476 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
0360-4012

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✦ Synopsis

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 0.42 mM and V ~max~ of 35 nmoles g^−1^ min^−1^ The saturable component of L‐phenylalanine transport was adversely affected by dinitrophenol or low sodium concentration in the intracarotid injection solution. Intravascular ouabain did not affect transport and only partial inhibition was observed with 1.5 mM L‐leucine. It appears that there is no regional difference in the capacity of the BBB to more L‐phenylalanine from blood to brain. This process is directly or indirectly coupled to sodium movement and is partially dependent on cellular energy.

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