Depression of parallel and climbing fiber transmission to Bergmann glia is input specific and correlates with increased precision of synaptic transmission

GLIA

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 393-401

  Balakrishnan, Saju ^a   Bellamy, Tomas C ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Cerebellum; Glutamate; Spillover; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLIMBING FIBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXTRASYNAPTIC CURRENT; GLIA CELL; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PARALLEL FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPHYSICS; CEREBELLUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROGLIA; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 66249098113     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.20768     Document Type: Article

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