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SUBMITTER: Ramadan S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3849600 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ramadan Saadallah S Lin Alexander A Stanwell Peter P
NMR in biomedicine 20131004 12
Our understanding of the roles that the amino acids glutamate (Glu) and glutamine (Gln) play in the mammalian central nervous system has increased rapidly in recent times. Many conditions are known to exhibit a disturbance in Glu-Gln equilibrium, and the exact relationships between these changed conditions and these amino acids are not fully understood. This has led to increased interest in Glu/Gln quantitation in the human brain in an array of conditions (e.g. mental illness, tumor, neuro-degen ...[more]