Connexin 30 controls the extension of astrocytic processes into the synaptic cleft through an unconventional non-channel function

Neuroscience Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1045-1048

  Clasadonte, Jerome ^a   Haydon, Philip G ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CONNEXIN 30; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NONHUMAN; STRATUM RADIATUM; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; METABOLISM;

ASTROCYTES; CONNEXINS; HUMANS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84914707898     PISSN: 16737067     EISSN: 19958218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12264-014-1476-6     Document Type: Article

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