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#002 Dr. George Brooks on Lactate Shuttle Theory, Relevance for Traumatic Brain Injury, and More

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Thermodynamically Favorable for Lactate in Neuronal Metabolism

In brain metabolism there's a big discussion about the astrocyte neuron lactate shuttle and it's been proposed that astrocytes which are far more numerous than neurons take glucose and make lactate. So if there's a shutdown in glycolysis an astrocyt that would starve neurons but uh roger housain who just poked her head in here she has a paper where she showed that all the apparatus for neurons to take glucose and made lactate or intact always.

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