Recently, the noteworthy results have been published regarding the uptake and degradation of biologically active substances, neurotransmitters, amino acids and carbohydrates by neuroglial cells and their inactivation as it takes place in the liver of living organisms. Based on the above-said, an assumption was made that the neuroglial cells in the brain, presented in biologically active glial-synaptic and neuron-neuroglial regions, should perform a similar function as the liver does. The functions of the liver are well known and determined by the excess accumulation of metabolic and physiologically active substances in the organism by means of inactivation, degradation and detoxication. For this purpose, the neurolectins existing in glial cells were specially studied. Based on the preliminary data, by means of them, the inhibition of agglutination of blood trypsinized erythrocytes took place via biologically active substances, neurotransmitters and aminoacids. This indicates that by means of neuroglial cells it is possible to uptake the above-said substances and then their degradation and inactivation in the cell. Based on the obtained data, it should be recognized that the neuroglial cells in glial-synaptic and neuron-neuroglial regions, the neuroglia should be considered as a structural formation having liver function in the brain
Synthesis of urea after stimulation with amino acids: relation to liver function.
