Nature Neuroscience
4, 459 - 460 (2001)
doi:10.1038/87405
Brain glucosensing and the KATP channelBarry E. Levin, Ambrose A. Dunn-Meynell
& Vanessa H. Routh
The authors are in the Neurology Service (127C), VA Medical Center, E. Orange, New Jersey 07018, USA, and the Departments of Neurosciences and Pharmacology and Physiology, New Jersey Medical School (UMDNJ), Newark, New Jersey 07103, USA.
levin@umdnj.edu
An ATP-sensitive K+ channel in glucose-responsive neurons is shown to be required for the emergency response to severe glucose deprivation, but not necessarily for normal feeding.
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