Disentangling calcium-driven astrocyte physiology

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 226-233

  Rusakov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; GLUTAMIC ACID; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM;

ASTROCYTE; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GAP JUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MACROGLIA; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEADY STATE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CALCIUM SIGNALING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CALCIUM SIGNALING; HUMANS;

EID: 84925592223     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3878     Document Type: Review

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