Astrocytes and synaptic plasticity

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 10/12/2008 - 23:00

(Rockefeller University Press) By mopping up excess neurotrophic factor from neuronal synapses, astrocytes may finely tune synaptic transmission to affect processes such as learning and memory, say Bergami et al.

Their report is published in the Journal of Cell Biology.


 

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