Electrical and Metabolic Activity

Pellerin and Magistretti, 1994

Information Transfer:

- changes in membrane potential

leading to action potential

- chemical neuro-transmission

across synapses

glucose

capillary

astrocyte

glutamatergic

synapse

pyruvate

glutamate

O2

glycolysis

basal pathway

lactate

phosphorylation

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