Astrocytes display complex and localized calcium responses to single-neuron stimulation in the hippocampus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 8905-8919

  Bernardinelli, Yann ^a   Salmon, Chris ^a   Jones, Emma V ^a   Farmer, W Todd ^a   Stellwagen, David ^a   Murai, Keith K ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM ORANGE; CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2; DYE; GLUTAMIC ACID; PURINE; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DEPOLARIZATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIGHT EVOKED NEURONAL DEPOLARIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SINGLE NEURON STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASPARTIC ACID; ASTROCYTES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZOATES; BENZOXAZINES; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CARBENOXOLONE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLYCINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; METHOXYHYDROXYPHENYLGLYCOL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOLINES; NAPHTHALENES; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PIPERIDINES; PYRAZOLES; PYRIDINES; RHODOPSIN; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TETANUS TOXIN; TETRODOTOXIN; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79959299051     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6341-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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