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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurochem. 2010 Oct 21;115(5):1234–1244. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.07020.x

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Biosynthesis of D-Asp in a cerebral ganglion of A. californica. (a) Incubation of an intact cerebral ganglion in 5 μCi/mL [14C]-L-Asp, showing final percentages of radiolabeled Asp enantiomers found after ~24 h. (b) Incubation of a desheathed cerebral hemiganglia and related sheath tissue in (1) 5 μCi/mL [14C]-L-Asp and (2) 5 μCi/mL [14C]-D-Asp, showing conversion to enantiomer after ~24 h. A significantly larger conversion of [14C]-L-Asp to [14C]-D-Asp occurs in the cerebral hemiganglion over that of the sheath tissue (n = 3, p <0.01). Error bars represent standard deviations.