Astrocytes contain a vesicular compartment that is competent for regulated exocytosis of glutamate

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 613-620

  Bezzi, Paola ^a,b   Gundersen, Vidar ^a,c   Galbete, José Luis ^a   Seifert, Gerald ^d   Steinhäuser, Christian ^d   Pilati, Ethel ^a   Volterra, Andrea ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CELLUBREVIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SNARE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL VACUOLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; EXOCYTOSIS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RATS; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; TRANSPORT VESICLES; VESICLE-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 3; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 2542501505     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1246     Document Type: Article

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