Loss of local astrocyte support disrupts action potential propagation and glutamate release synchrony from unmyelinated hippocampal axon terminals in vitro

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 31, 2015, Pages 11105-11117

  Sobieski, Courtney ^a   Jiang, Xiaoping ^a   Crawford, Devon C ^a,b   Mennerick, Steven ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential; Astrocyte; Glutamate; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE RELEASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WAVEFORM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; CELLS, CULTURED; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS;

EID: 84938778330     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1289-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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