Astrocytes drive divergent metabolic gene expression in humans and chimpanzees
T. M. Zintel, J. Pizzollo, C. G. Claypool, C. C. Babbitt
The paper compares metabolic gene expression in astrocytes and neurons between humans and chimpanzees, finding greater divergence in astrocytes related to glucose and lactate transport and oxidative phosphorylation.
bioRxiv · Nov 9, 2020Evolutionary Biology