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
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