Purines: Active Transport by Isolated Choroid Plexus
- 14 March 1969
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 163 (3872), 1194-1195
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.163.3872.1194
Abstract
Purines are actively accumulated by the isolated rabbit choroid plexus by a specific saturable transport mechanism. In vivo this system probably serves to excrete the purine catabolities of brain from cerebrospinal fluid into blood.Keywords
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