Astroglial processes show spontaneous motility at active synaptic terminals in situ

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2235-2239

  Hirrlinger, Johannes ^a,b   Hülsmann, Swen ^a,c   Kirchhoff, Frank ^a,b  

^a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Brainstem slice; Green fluorescent protein; Neuron glia interaction; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILOPODIUM; LAMELLIPODIUM; LASER MICROSCOPY; MACROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN STEM; CELL MOVEMENT; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS;

EID: 4944222267     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03689.x     Document Type: Article

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