The nutritive function of glia is regulated by signals released by neurons

GLIA

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 84-91

  Tsacopoulos, Marco ^a,b   Poitry Yamate, Carol L ^a   Poitry, Serge ^a   Perrottet, Philippe ^a   Veuthey, Anne Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b Centre Médical Universitaire   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fluorescence imaging; Glutamate; Glutamate transport; NH4+ transport; pH

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031238677     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1136(199709)21:1<84::AID-GLIA9>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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