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Glutamate uptake into astrocytes stimulates aerobic glycolysis: a mechanism coupling neuronal activity to glucose utilization.
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Glutamate, released at a majority of excitatory synapses in the central nervous system, depolarizes neurons by acting at specific receptors. Its action is terminated by removal from the synaptic cleft mostly via Na(+)-dependent uptake systems located on both neurons and astrocytes. Here we report that glutamate, in addition to its receptor-mediated actions on neuronal excitability, stimulates glycolysis--i.e., glucose utilization and lactate production--in astrocytes. This metabolic action is mediated by activation of a Na(+)-dependent uptake system and not by interaction with receptors. The mechanism involves the Na+/K(+)-ATPase, which is activated by an increase in the intracellular concentration of Na+ cotransported with glutamate by the electrogenic uptake system. Thus, when glutamate is released from active synapses and taken up by astrocytes, the newly identified signaling pathway described here would provide a simple and direct mechanism to tightly couple neuronal activity to glucose utilization. In addition, glutamate-stimulated glycolysis is consistent with data obtained from functional brain imaging studies indicating local nonoxidative glucose utilization during physiological activation.
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“Lactate produced in astrocytes can be released into the extracellular space via monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs). This lactate is subsequently taken up by neurons through neuronal MCTs, a process known as the astrocyte–neuron lactate shuttle (ANLS)12,13.”
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“astrocytes: CMRglcðP+OxÞ a = 0:5ðVPDHa +VPCÞ: [5]”
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“Astrocytic lactate has been proposed to serve as an energy substrate for active neurons, a mechanism known as the astrocyte-to-neuron lactate shuttle (ANLS; Pellerin and Magistretti, 1994; Bouzier-Sore and Pellerin, 2013; Stobart and Anderson, 2013).”
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“In 1994, Pellerin and Magistretti observed that glutamate uptake by astrocytes stimulates glycolysis and they proposed the astrocyte-neuron lactate shuttle (ANLS) model to describe the connection between glutamatergic neurotrans-mission and glucose utilization in the cortex (340).”
Endothelin‐1 potently induces Leão’s cortical spreading depression in vivo in the rat
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Rapid Changes in Local Extracellular Rat Brain Glucose Observed with an In Vivo Glucose Sensor
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“The lactate surge is thought to play roles in neurometabolic (Pellerin and Magistretti, 1994) and neurovascular (Gordon et al., 2008) coupling, but its source has remained controversial (discussed by Barros and Deitmer, 2010).”
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“Recent findings have linked these two transport systems together so that neuronal activity is coupled to glucose uptake by glia (Magistretti and Pellerin, 1997; Pellerin and Magistretti, 1994, 1996; Tsacopoulos and Magistretti, 1996).”
Food for Thought: Challenging the Dogmas
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“tion (Pellerin and Magistretti, 1994).”
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“…lactate shuttle hypothesis where lactate along with glucose serves as an oxidative fuel for elevated neuronal energy metabolism so that the largely glycolytic metabolism in astrocytes is linked with the largely oxidative metabolism of lactate in neurones (Pellerin & Magistretti, 1994, 2003).”
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“The Astrocyte Neuron Lactate Shuttle (ANLS) Hypothesis [78] proposes that lactate is transported from glial to neurons via monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs) in Drosophila [79] and mice [80–82].”
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“…basis of tissue culture experiments in which glutamate exposure evoked an increase in DG phosphorylation and lactate efflux to the culture medium, Pellerin and Magistretti (1994) proposed that astrocytic uptake of glutamate plus Na+ from the synaptic cleft stimulates astrocytic glycolysis to…”
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Astrocytes generate Na + -mediated metabolic waves
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The role of neuronal signaling in controlling cerebral blood flow
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“…body of evidence indicating that: (1) glutamate stimulates anaerobic glycolysis in astrocyte cultures leading to lactate release into the medium (Pellerin & Magistretti, 1994; Takahashi, Driscoll, Law, & SokoloV, 1995); (2) neurons and astrocytes in culture have the potential of metabolizing…”
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“arguably the preferred energy substrate of neurons (Pellerin and Magistretti, 1994).”
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Astrocytic involvement in learning and memory consolidation
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“These observations provide evidence against the concept that glutamate removal from the extracellular cleft by uptake into astrocytes specifically requires ATP derived from glycolytic metabolism (Pellerin and Magistretti, 1994).”
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“In the CNS, this concept was challenged in the 1990s when lactate was proposed to play an important role as energy substrate for neurons (Pellerin and Magistretti, 1994).”
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“…cerebral non-oxidative carbohydrate consumption may represent increases in anaerobic energy metabolism, but how that is coupled to the apparently delicate balance of serving the neurons with substrate from blood or as proposed from astrocytes (Pellerin & Magistretti, 1994) needs to be established.”
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“It is becoming more recognized that lactate is an essential metabolic intermediate in many organs; particularly in the brain, lactate is likely shuttled between astrocytes and neurons to meet highenergy demands (82,103).”
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“The astrocyte-neuron lactate shuttle hypothesis proposed by Pellerin and Magistretti (1994) has led to a discussion of whether lactate or glucose is the preferred neuronal substrate during synaptic activity (e.g., Vannucci and Simpson, 2001; Hertz, 2004).”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Pellerin, L., & Magistretti, P. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Lausanne (CH)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 1994-10-25
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 10625-10629
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC45074
- OpenAlex
- W2092635505
- Cited by
- 2,927
- References
- 41
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- FWCI
- 10.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- IRIS (submittedVersion)
- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biochemistry › Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Keywords
- glutamate uptake, astrocytes, aerobic glycolysis, Na+/K+-ATPase, neuronal activity, glucose utilization, lactic acid production, nonoxidative glucose metabolism, astrocyte-neuron interaction
- MeSH terms
- Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase, Aerobiosis, Animals, Animals, Newborn, Astrocytes, Biological Transport, Brain, Cells, Cultured, Cerebral Cortex, Deoxyglucose, Glycolysis, Lactates, Models, Neurological, Neurons, Radionuclide Imaging, Tritium, Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists, Glutamic Acid, Mice
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