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Coupling cellular metabolism to neuronal signalling
Author(s) -
Bowie Derek,
Attwell David
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the journal of physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.802
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1469-7793
pISSN - 0022-3751
DOI - 10.1113/jp271075
Subject(s) - coupling (piping) , signalling , metabolism , neuroscience , chemistry , cellular metabolism , microbiology and biotechnology , biophysics , biology , biochemistry , materials science , metallurgy
Although it has long been appreciated that much of the brain's energy is devoted to neuronal signalling, it is unclear if and how these two processes are coupled. To explore this emerging area of neuroscience, The Journal of Physiology sponsored a symposium at The Physiological Society's annual meeting, Physiology 2014, in London to bring together five researchers (see Fig. 1) whose work is at the forefront of this rapidly developing field of study. This issue of The Journal of Physiology brings together six timely review articles from some of these speakers and other researchers whose work captures some of the ideas, discussions and debates that arose during the 2014 Symposium on ‘Coupling cellular metabolism to neuronal signalling’.