Dynamic Volume Changes in Astrocytes Are an Intrinsic Phenomenon Mediated by Bicarbonate Ion Flux

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Florence, Clare M ^a   Baillie, Landon D ^a   Mulligan, Sean J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ACETAZOLAMIDE; BICARBONATE; BICARBONATE SODIUM COTRANSPORTER; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE INHIBITOR; MUSCIMOL; POTASSIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANION TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SLICE; CELL SWELLING; CELL VOLUME; CHANNEL GATING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; IMAGING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STRATUM RADIATUM; TWO PHOTON IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BICARBONATES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL SIZE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ION CHANNELS; MALE; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84870616678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051124     Document Type: Article

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