Response: Astrocyte-mediated control of cerebral microcirculation

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 344-345

  Zonta, Micaela ^a   Angulo, Maria Cecilia ^a   Carmignoto, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; TETRODOTOXIN;

ARTERIOLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SECRETION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNAPSE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0037677677     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2236(03)00142-5     Document Type: Short Survey

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