Download or read book Glial Amino Acid Transporters written by Arturo Ortega and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious compendium provides an extensive overview on the "supporting cells" of the vertebrate central nervous system, these being glial cells which far outnumber neurons but are much less understood. Covering multiple aspects of this family of transporters-- from structural properties, to their involvement in signaling and gene expression regulation, this volume presents the most recent research on the roles of glial amino acid transporters as key molecules of brain metabolism and signaling.