Current technical approaches to brain energy metabolism

L. Felipe Barros*, Juan P. Bolaños, Gilles Bonvento, Anne Karine Bouzier-Sore, Angus Brown, Johannes Hirrlinger, Sergey Kasparov, Frank Kirchhoff, Anne N. Murphy, Luc Pellerin, Michael B. Robinson, Bruno Weber

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Neuroscience is a technology-driven discipline and brain energy metabolism is no exception. Once satisfied with mapping metabolic pathways at organ level, we are now looking to learn what it is exactly that metabolic enzymes and transporters do and when, where do they reside, how are they regulated, and how do they relate to the specific functions of neurons, glial cells, and their subcellular domains and organelles, in different areas of the brain. Moreover, we aim to quantify the fluxes of metabolites within and between cells. Energy metabolism is not just a necessity for proper cell function and viability but plays specific roles in higher brain functions such as memory processing and behavior, whose mechanisms need to be understood at all hierarchical levels, from isolated proteins to whole subjects, in both health and disease. To this aim, the field takes advantage of diverse disciplines including anatomy, histology, physiology, biochemistry, bioenergetics, cellular biology, molecular biology, developmental biology, neurology, and mathematical modeling. This article presents a well-referenced synopsis of the technical side of brain energy metabolism research. Detail and jargon are avoided whenever possible and emphasis is given to comparative strengths, limitations, and weaknesses, information that is often not available in regular articles.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)1138-1159
Número de páginas22
PublicaciónGLIA
Volumen66
N.º6
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2018
Publicado de forma externa

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Áreas temáticas de ASJC Scopus

  • Neurología
  • Neurociencia celular y molecular

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