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Morphological and metabolic compartmentalization in the honeybee retina. The glial components take up glucose, which is ultimately converted to alanine. The alanine is then shuttled to the photoreceptors where it is oxidatively metabolized. Such a scheme serves as a template for the lactate shuttling present in the mammalian CNS.
