Morphological plasticity of astroglia: Understanding synaptic microenvironment

GLIA

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2133-2151

  Heller, Janosch P ^a   Rusakov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

astrocyte plasticity; Perisynaptic astrocytic processes; Super resolution microscopy

Indexed keywords

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN REGION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROGLIA; MICROENVIRONMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84943527495     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: 10981136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/glia.22821     Document Type: Review

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