Lasse Kristoffer Bak

Lasse Kristoffer Bak

Guest Researcher, Professor


  1. 2011
  2. Published

    Brain energy and ammonia metabolism

    Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Waagepetersen, Helle S. & Schousboe, Arne, 2011, Functional molecular imaging in hepatology. Bussum, The Netherlands: Bentham Science Publishers, p. 129-144

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  3. Published

    Glutamate and glutamine in brain disorders

    Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Schousboe, Arne & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 2011, Neurochemical mechanisms in diseases. Blass, J. P. (ed.). New York: Springer Publishing Company, Vol. 1. p. 195-212 (Advances in Neurobiology).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    The Value of Example Solutions in Pharmacy Education: The role of seniority and gender.

    Sandelin, Albin Gustav, Hansen, H. R., Baldursdóttir, S. G., Kristensen, Anders Skov, Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Christiansen, Frederik Voetmann & Selhuber-Unkel, C. J. M., 2011, In: Pharmacy Education. 11, 1, p. 32-37 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Detoxification of ammonia in mouse cortical GABAergic cell cultures increases neuronal oxidative metabolism and reveals an emerging role for release of glucose-derived alanine

    Leke, R., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Anker, M., Melø, T. M., Sørensen, M., Keiding, S., Vilstrup, H., Ott, P., Portela, L. V., Sonnewald, U., Schousboe, Arne & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 1 Apr 2011, In: Neurotoxicity Research. 19, 3, p. 496-510 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Synthesis of neurotransmitter GABA via the neuronal tricarboxylic acid cycle is elevated in rats with liver cirrhosis consistent with a high GABAergic tone in chronic hepatic encephalopathy

    Leke, R., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Iversen, P., Sørensen, M., Keiding, S., Vilstrup, H., Ott, P., Portela, L. V., Schousboe, Arne & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 1 Jun 2011, In: Journal of Neurochemistry. 117, 5, p. 824-32 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Branched-chain amino acids increase arterial blood ammonia in spite of enhanced intrinsic muscle ammonia metabolism in patients with cirrhosis and healthy subjects

    Dam, G., Keiding, S., Munk, O. L., Ott, P., Buhl, M., Vilstrup, H., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Waagepetersen, Helle S., Schousboe, Arne, Møller, N. & Sørensen, M., 1 Aug 2011, In: American Journal of Physiology: Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 301, 2, p. G269-77

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Inhibition of glutamine synthesis induces glutamate dehydrogenase-dependent ammonia fixation into alanine in co-cultures of astrocytes and neurons

    Dadsetan, S., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Sørensen, M., Keiding, S., Vilstrup, H., Ott, P., Leke, R., Schousboe, Arne & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 1 Sep 2011, In: Neurochemistry International. 59, 4, p. 482-8 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Neuron-glia interactions in glutamatergic neurotransmission: roles of oxidative and glycolytic adenosine triphosphate as energy source

    Schousboe, Arne, Sickmann, H. M., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Schousboe, I., Jajo, F. S., Faek, S. A. A. & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 1 Dec 2011, In: Journal of Neuroscience Research. 89, 12, p. 1926-34 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. 2012
  11. Published

    Aspects of astrocyte energy metabolism, amino acid neurotransmitter homoeostasis and metabolic compartmentation

    Kreft, M., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Waagepetersen, Helle S. & Schousboe, Arne, 2012, In: A S N Neuro. 4, 3, p. 187 199 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Brain energy and ammonia metabolism

    Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Schousboe, Arne & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 2012, Functional molecular imaging in hepatology. Bentham Science Publishers, Vol. 1. p. 129-144 16 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  13. Published
  14. Published

    Impairment of the organization of locomotor and exploratory behaviors in bile duct-ligated rats

    Leke, R., de Oliveira, D. L., Mussulini, B. H. M., Pereira, M. S., Kazlauckas, V., Mazzini, G., Hartmann, C. R., Silveira, T. R., Simonsen, M., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Waagepetersen, Helle S., Keiding, S., Schousboe, Arne & Portela, L. V., 2012, In: P L o S One. 7, 5, p. e36322

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Novel model of neuronal bioenergetics: postsynaptic utilization of glucose but not lactate correlates positively with Ca2+ signalling in cultured mouse glutamatergic neurons

    Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Obel, L. L. F., Walls, Anne Byriel, Schousboe, Arne, Faek, S. A. A., Jajo, F. S. & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 2012, In: A S N Neuro. 4, 3, p. 151-160

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Valine but not leucine or isoleucine supports neurotransmitter glutamate synthesis during synaptic activity in cultured cerebellar neurons

    Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Johansen, M. L., Schousboe, Arne & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 2012, In: Journal of Neuroscience Research. 90, 9, p. 1768-75 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Brain glycogen: new perspectives on its metabolic function and regulation at the subcellular level

    Obel, L. L. F., Müller, M. S., Walls, Anne Byriel, Sickmann, H. M., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Waagepetersen, Helle S. & Schousboe, Arne, 2 Mar 2012, In: Frontiers in Neuroenergetics. 4, 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Primary cultures of astrocytes: their value in understanding astrocytes in health and disease

    Lange, S. C., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Waagepetersen, Helle S., Schousboe, Arne & Norenberg, M. D., Nov 2012, In: Neurochemical Research. 37, 11, p. 2569-88 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. 2013
  20. Published

    Amino acid neurotransmitter synthesis and removal

    Schousboe, Arne, Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Madsen, K. K. & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 2013, Neuroglia. Kettenman, H. & Ransom, B. R. (eds.). 3. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 443-456 14 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Interorgan metabolism of ornithine phenylacetate (OP)-A novel strategy for treatment of hyperammonemia

    Dadsetan, S., Sørensen, M., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Vilstrup, H., Ott, P., Schousboe, Arne, Jalan, R., Keiding, S. & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 2013, In: Biochemical Pharmacology. 85, 1, p. 115-23 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Reply to letter to the editor by Zheng G et al. Venous blood ammonia can be associated with cerebral blood flow in hepatic encephalopathy

    Dam, G., Keiding, S., Munk, O. L., Ott, P., Vilstrup, H., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Waagepetersen, Helle S., Schousboe, Arne & Sørensen, M., 2013, In: Hepatology. 58, 2, p. 833-834

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debateResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Hepatic encephalopathy is associated with decreased cerebral oxygen metabolism and blood flow, not increased ammonia uptake

    Dam, G., Keiding, S., Munk, O. L., Ott, P., Vilstrup, H., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Waagepetersen, Helle S., Schousboe, Arne & Sørensen, M., Jan 2013, In: Hepatology. 57, 1, p. 258-65 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Glutamate dehydrogenase Isoforms with N-Terminal (His)6- or FLAG-tag retain their kinetic properties and cellular localization

    Pajecka, K., Nielsen, C. W., Hauge, A., Zaganas, I., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Schousboe, Arne, Plaitakis, A. & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 26 Apr 2013, In: Neurochemical Research. 39, 3, p. 487-499

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Complex actions of ionomycin in cultured cerebellar astrocytes affecting both calcium-induced calcium release and store-operated calcium entry

    Müller, M. S., Obel, L. L. F., Waagepetersen, Helle S., Schousboe, Arne & Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Jun 2013, In: Neurochemical Research. 38, 6, p. 1260-5 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Role of branched chain amino acids in cerebral ammonia homeostasis related to hepatic encephalopathy

    Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Waagepetersen, H. S., Sørensen, M., Ott, P., Vilstrup, H., Keiding, S. & Schousboe, A., Jun 2013, In: Metabolic Brain Disease. 28, 2, p. 209-15 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    Brain alanine formation as an ammonia-scavenging pathway during hyperammonemia: effects of glutamine synthetase inhibition in rats and astrocyte-neuron co-cultures

    Dadsetan, S., Kukolj, E., Bak, Lasse Kristoffer, Sørensen, M., Ott, P., Vilstrup, H., Schousboe, Arne, Keiding, S. & Waagepetersen, Helle S., Aug 2013, In: Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. 33, 8, p. 1235-41 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    Astrocytic control of biosynthesis and turnover of the neurotransmitters glutamate and GABA

    Schousboe, Arne, Bak, Lasse Kristoffer & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 15 Aug 2013, In: Frontiers in Endocrinology. 4, 102.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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