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. 2012 Apr 4;32(8):1472–1483. doi: 10.1038/jcbfm.2012.31

Table 2. Top: Some average values reaction fluxes and transport rates in awake state, compute from 100,000 samples. Bottom: Input values for the simulations and mean results of a 100,000 steady states.

Input Awake Excited Inhibited
Blood flow 0.55 0.75 0.55
Oxygen arterial concentration 9.3 9.3 9.3
Carbon dioxide concentration 23 23 23
Glucose AV difference 0.54 0.54 0.54
Lactate AV difference −0.18 −0.18 −0.18
Reaction/transport Astrocyte
Glutamatergic
GABAergic
  Awake Excited Inhibited Awake Excited Inhibited Awake Excited Inhibited
Glycolytic pyruvate 0.22 0.28 0.29 0.28 0.37 0.31 0.22 0.27 0.30
LDH (Pyr) −0.11 0.17 0.00 −0.16 0.25 −0.09 −0.14 −0.19 −0.03
TCA 0.12 0.12 0.30 0.41 0.60 0.29 0.14 0.13 0.21
PC 0.11 0.11 0.25
Malic enzyme (c) 0.12 0.12 0.35
Malic enzyme (m) ∼0 ∼0 ∼0 0.02 0.03 0.13
PDH 0.15 0.15 0.33 0.45 0.64 0.13 0.05 0.05 0.13
OGC 0.13 0.14 0.31 0.44 0.66 0.21 0.08 0.08 0.27
AGC1 0.07* 0.07* 0.07* 0.39 0.59 0.28 0.19 0.19 0.46
OxPhos 0.34 0.35 0.89 1.29 1.86 0.76 0.30 0.28 0.13
GDA 0.19 0.25 0.14 0.10 0.10 0.23
GABA shunt 0.19 0.25 0.14 0.07 0.07 0.10
Glutamate efflux (net) −0.30* 0.45* −0.11 0.30* 0.45* 0.11  
GABA release (net) −0.03 −0.03 −0.13 0.03 0.03 0.13*
Glutamine uptake (net) −0.36 −0.52 −0.36 0.25 0.41 0.18 0.11 0.11 0.18
Aspartate uptake (net) 0.04 0.04 0.22 0.05 0.04 −0.06 −0.011 0.04 −0.18

AGC, aspartate-glutamate carrier; AV, arteriovenous; GABA, gamma aminobutyric acid; GDA, glutamic decarboxylase; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; OGC, oxoglutarate carrier; OxPhos, oxidative phosphorylation; PC, pyruvate carboxylase; PDH, pyruvate dehydrogenase; TCA, tricarboxylic acid.

All flux values are in μmol/g per minute. The TCA cycle rate is obtained from the flux of the FUM → MAL reaction. *indicates values that are entered as prior input values.