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AGC1 Deficiency: Pathology and Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of the Disease

scientific article published in 2022

AGC1-malate aspartate shuttle activity is critical for dopamine handling in the nigrostriatal pathway

scientific article published in February 2013

Brain glutamine synthesis requires neuronal-born aspartate as amino donor for glial glutamate formation.

scientific article

Ca(2+) regulation of mitochondrial function in neurons.

scientific article published on 10 May 2014

Ca2+ Activation kinetics of the two aspartate-glutamate mitochondrial carriers, aralar and citrin: role in the heart malate-aspartate NADH shuttle

scientific journal article

Ca2+ dysregulation in neurons from transgenic mice expressing mutant presenilin 2.

scientific article published on 7 August 2012

Calcium regulation of mitochondrial carriers.

scientific article published on 28 March 2016

Calcium signaling in brain mitochondria: interplay of malate aspartate NADH shuttle and calcium uniporter/mitochondrial dehydrogenase pathways

scientific article

Cytosolic reducing power preserves glutamate in retina

scientific article published on 14 October 2013

Essential role of aralar in the transduction of small Ca2+ signals to neuronal mitochondria.

scientific article published on 3 November 2005

Glutamate excitotoxicity and Ca2+-regulation of respiration: Role of the Ca2+ activated mitochondrial transporters (CaMCs).

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

Inhibition of mitochondrial pyruvate transport by zaprinast causes massive accumulation of aspartate at the expense of glutamate in the retina

scientific article

Low levels of citrin (SLC25A13) expression in adult mouse brain restricted to neuronal clusters.

scientific article published in April 2010

Mitochondria: the calcium connection

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

Pyruvate kinase and aspartate-glutamate carrier distributions reveal key metabolic links between neurons and glia in retina

scientific article

Reduced N-acetylaspartate levels in mice lacking aralar, a brain- and muscle-type mitochondrial aspartate-glutamate carrier

scientific article published on 29 June 2005

Role of AGC1/aralar in the metabolic synergies between neuron and glia

scientific article published on 15 April 2015

Role of aralar, the mitochondrial transporter of aspartate-glutamate, in brain N-acetylaspartate formation and Ca(2+) signaling in neuronal mitochondria.

scientific article

Uncoupling Protein 2 (UCP2) Function in the Brain as Revealed by the Cerebral Metabolism of (1-13C)-Glucose

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Whole-exome sequencing identifies MDH2 as a new familial paraganglioma gene.

scientific article