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“ Potassium can reverse the transmembrane gradient of protons in astrocytes, and increase intracellular glutamine concentration, creating the conditions for a reversal of glutamine flux via System N from uptake to export.”
“These flux changes, evoked by potassium released from active neurons, combine to accelerate glutamate-glutamine cycling.”
“In both the PCT and MAL, glutamine oxidation was inhibited by high extracellular potassium concentrations and in the PCT enhanced by extracellular hypokalemia.”
Renal physiology and biochemistry • 1992 | View Paper
“However, one notable difference between the two responses was that the extracellular concentration of glutamine , although not influenced by kainic acid, was significantly decreased after high potassium concentrations.”
Acta biologica et medica Germanica • 1978 | View Paper
“Protein loading (compared with protein depletion) and potassium depletion induce an increased uptake of glutamine into the renal mitochondrial matrix space which leads to its increased deamidation.”
“The inclusion of potassium in the medium augmented the oxygen uptake and the production of radioactive glutamine in all the different parts of the brain and the production of radioactive CO2 in the cerebral cortex.”