Memory formation shaped by astroglia

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue November, 2015, Pages 1-7

  Zorec, Robert ^a,b   Horvat, Anemari ^a   Vardjan, Nina ^a,b   Verkhratsky, Alexei ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Celica Biomedical Sciences Center   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^f LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Astroglia; Memory; Metabolism; Shape; Signaling

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAB PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE DISSOCIATION INHIBITOR 1;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; EXOCYTOSIS; EXPLICIT MEMORY; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MACROGLIA; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84948751468     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2015.00056     Document Type: Article

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