Power Up: Growing Neurons Undergo Major Metabolic Shift (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Power Up: Growing Neurons Undergo Major Metabolic Shift

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Salk Institute researchers have now identified the timing of a dramatic metabolic shift in developing neurons, which makes them become dependent on oxygen as a source of energy. A key metabolic pathway must be switched off during neuron development, or else -- as is shown on the right -- fewer neurons (green) survive. The red cells are non-neural cells called glia.

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