Long-Term Culture of Astrocytes Attenuates the Readily Releasable Pool of Synaptic Vesicles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kawano, Hiroyuki ^a   Katsurabayashi, Shutaro ^a   Kakazu, Yasuhiro ^b   Yamashita, Yuta ^a   Kubo, Natsuko ^a   Kubo, Masafumi ^a   Okuda, Hideto ^a   Takasaki, Kotaro ^a   Kubota, Kaori ^a   Mishima, Kenichi ^a   Fujiwara, Michihiro ^a   Harata, N Charles ^b   Iwasaki, Katsunori ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; GLIA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BRAIN; CELL AGING; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868135817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048034     Document Type: Article

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