Subverting the hegemony of the synapse: Complicity of neurons, astrocytes, and vasculature in spreading depression and pathology of the cerebral cortex

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 123-132

  Grafstein, Bernice ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Astrocyte; Chronic traumatic encephalopathy; Migraine; Peri infact depolarization; Spreading cortical depression

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM ION; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANOXIA; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DISEASE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; MIGRAINE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SPREADING DEPRESSION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NEURONS; NEUROSCIENCES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 78751705637     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: 18726321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2010.09.007     Document Type: Review

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