Loose excitation-secretion coupling in astrocytes

GLIA

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 655-667

  Vardjan, Nina ^a,b   Parpura, Vladimir ^c   Zorec, Robert ^a,b  

^a Celica Biomedical Sciences Center   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte secretion; Calcium homeostasis; Exocytosis; GPCR; SNAREs; Vesicular release

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; SNARE PROTEIN; CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHROMAFFIN CELL; EXCITABILITY; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS SECRETION COUPLING; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CALCIUM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; SNARE PROTEINS;

EID: 84941287017     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.22920     Document Type: Article

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