Extracellular glutamate diffusion determines the occupancy of glutamate receptors at CA1 synapses in the hippocampus

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1381, 1999, Pages 395-402

  Kullmann, Dimitri M ^a   Min, Ming Yuan ^a   Asztely, Fredrik ^b   Rusakov, Dmitri A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Glutamate spillover; Hippocampus; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0033611680     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0392     Document Type: Article

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