15N-NMR spectroscopy studies of ammonia transport and glutamine synthesis in the hyperammonemic rat brain.
15N-NMR spectroscopy studies of ammonia transport and glutamine synthesis in the hyperammonemic rat brain.
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高氨大鼠脑中氨转运和谷氨酰胺合成的 15N-NMR 波谱研究。
DOI:
10.1159/000017341
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Shulman,RG
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作者:
Shen,J;Sibson,NR;Cline,G;Behar,KL;Rothman,DL;Shulman,RG
Ammonia transport and glutamine synthesis were studied in the hyperammonaemic rat brain in vivo using15N-NMR spectroscopy at a plasma ammonia level of approximately 0.39 mMraised via an intravenous [15N]-ammonium acetate infusion. The initial slope of the time course of the summed cerebral15N-labelled metabolites was used to determine the rate of ammonia net transport during hyperammonemia as 0.13 ± 0.02 µmol/min/g (mean ± SD; n = 5). Based on the total accumulation of glutamine and the 1:2 stoichiometric relationship between fluxes of four-carbon skeletons and nitrogen atoms, the rate of de novo glutamine synthesis through anaplerosis and subsequent glutamate dehydrogenase action was calculated to be 0.065 ± 0.01 µmol/min/g. The rate of total glutamine synthesis was estimated to be 0.20 ± 0.06 µmol/min/g (n = 5) by fitting the [5-15N]glutamine time course to a previously described model of glutamate-glutamine cycling between astrocytes and neurones. A large dilution was also observed in [2-15N]glutamine, which supports the glutamate-glutamine cycle as being an important pathway for neuronal glutamate repletion in vivo.