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Amino acid transport in cerebral microvessels during plasmodium yoelii infection in mice
Author(s) -
Agrawal Anju,
Tripathi L.M.,
Pandey V.C.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of developmental neuroscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.761
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1873-474X
pISSN - 0736-5748
DOI - 10.1016/s0736-5748(97)00023-3
Subject(s) - glycine , valine , plasmodium yoelii , amino acid , leucine , biology , metabolism , biochemistry , alanine , chemistry , plasmodium falciparum , immunology , malaria , parasitemia
Plasmodium yoelii infected cerebral microvessels of mice had an enhanced time‐dependent, temperature‐sensitive, and saturable uptake of [ 14 C]‐amino acid. viz. leucine, valine and glycine. Metabolic inhibitors caused a noticeable inhibition of amino acid uptake in normal microvessels as compared to infected cerebral microvessels indicating that the uptake of [ 14 C]‐L‐leucine, [ 14 C]‐L‐valine and [ 14 C]‐glycine is an energy dependent process.