Cell biology of the neuron: Adding fuel to the firing

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 129 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.19 Author: Natasha Bray Neuronal activity promotes glycolysis at terminals to sustain synaptic vesicle (SV) recycling; however, the underlying mechanisms are not known. Ashrafi et al. expressed a pHluorin-tagged variant of the glucose transporter GLUT4 in rat hippocampal neurons and showed that, with sustained firing of action potentials,
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