Preparations Used in the Study of Amino Acid Transport

Preparations Used in the Study of Amino Acid Transport 

The following section of this review presents a list with short description of the major preparations that are used to study amino acid transport. Their limitations are discussed to make the potential user aware of possible artifacts and pitfalls. Ideally, a combination of two or more different preparations should be used to strengthen observations and allow more general conclusions to be drawn, as carried out, for example, by Bradford (1981). 

Synaptosomal preparations are the most widely used model systems in studying amino acid transport of the brain. The relevance 

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