Calcium imaging reveals glial involvement in transcranial direct current stimulation-induced plasticity in mouse brain

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Monai, Hiromu ^a   Ohkura, Masamichi ^b   Tanaka, Mika ^a   Oe, Yuki ^a   Konno, Ayumu ^c   Hirai, Hirokazu ^c   Mikoshiba, Katsuhiko ^a   Itohara, Shigeyoshi ^a   Nakai, Junichi ^b   Iwai, Youichi ^a   Hirase, Hajime ^a,b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 BROMO N (2 CHLOROETHYL) N ETHYLBENZYLAMINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CALCIUM; PRAZOSIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE RECEPTOR; IP3R2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

BRAIN; CALCIUM; COGNITION; GENE EXPRESSION; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY; RODENT; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; STRIATE CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; EVOKED RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INOSITOL 1,4,5-TRISPHOSPHATE RECEPTORS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROGLIA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OPTICAL IMAGING; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84961575474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11100     Document Type: Article

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