Yoshihiro Kamada, Ryota Hashimoto, Hidenaga Yamamori, Yuka Yasuda, Tetsuo Takehara, Yuko Fujita, Kenji Hashimoto, Eiji Miyoshi
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Blood aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine transaminase (ALT) levels are the most frequently reliable biomarkers of liver injury. Although AST and ALT play central roles in glutamate production as transaminases, peripheral blood levels of AST and ALT have been regarded only as liver injury biomarkers. Glutamate is a principal excitatory neurotransmitter, which affects memory functions in the brain. In this study, we investigated the impact of blood transaminase levels on blood glutamate concentration and memory...
June 2016: BBA Clinical