Glia: Pulling in opposite directions
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 643 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.133
Author: Sian Lewis
The influence of gliotransmitter release from astrocytes on synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus remains unclear. Hippocampal astrocytes express two vesicular SNARE proteins, synaptobrevin II (SYB2) and cellubrevin (CEB), which are located on glutamatergic vesicles and neuropeptide-Y (NPY)-containing vesicles, respectively. Working with hippocampal cell culture and
Source: Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Category: Neuroscience Authors: Sian Lewis Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research