Age-dependent remodelling of ionotropic signalling in cortical astroglia

Aging Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 392-402

  Lalo, Ulyana ^a   Palygin, Oleg ^b   North, Richard Alan ^c   Verkhratsky, Alexei ^c,d   Pankratov, Yuriy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aging; AMPA receptors; Astrocytes; NMDA receptors; P2X receptors; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; PURINERGIC P2X RECEPTOR;

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACROGLIA; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; AGING; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; ASTROCYTES; CELL COMMUNICATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GLUTAMIC ACID; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PURINERGIC P2X RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, IONOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RECEPTORS, PURINERGIC P2X; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 79955973304     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2011.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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