New tools for investigating astrocyte-to-neuron communication

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Li, Dongdong ^a   Agulhon, Cendra ^a   Schmidt, Elke ^a   Oheim, Martin ^a   Ropert, Nicole ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

CatCh; ChR2; GCaMP; Gliotransmission; LiGluR; Optogenetics; Pharmacogenetics; Photoactivation

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ASTROCYTE; CALCIUM BINDING; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LABELING; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHARMACOGENETICS; PHOTOACTIVATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW;

EID: 84886831822     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00193     Document Type: Review

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