Glycogen: A Trojan horse for neurons

Pierre J. Magistretti; Igor Allaman

doi:10.1038/nn1107-1341

Glycogen: A Trojan horse for neurons

Pierre J. Magistretti^*, Igor Allaman

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Neural activity leads to the mobilization of energy from glycogen in astrocytes. A new paper reports that neurons have an ambivalent relationship with glycogen: they can synthesize it themselves, but that synthesis induces apoptosis. Presumably for this reason, neurons normally inhibit glycogen synthesis through two redundant pathways.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1341-1342
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Neuroscience
Volume	10
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1107-1341
State	Published - Nov 2007
Externally published	Yes

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Glycogen: A Trojan horse for neurons

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