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Calcium inside astrocytes responds to sensory input

Here is a paper showing that “whisker stimulation evokes increases in astrocytic cytosolic calcium (Ca2+) within the barrel cortex of adult mice”.

Wang X, Lou N, Xu Q, Tian GF, Peng WG, Han X, Kang J, Takano T, Nedergaard M.
Astrocytic Ca2+ signaling evoked by sensory stimulation in vivo.
Nat Neurosci. 2006 Jun;9(6):816-23.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 at 6:04 pm by Bayle Shanks and is filed under At the scale of systems and functions, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Calcium inside astrocytes responds to sensory input”

  1. Bayle Says:
    August 16th, 2006 at 6:08 pm

    I was unsure what category to put this story under. Maybe we need a “glia are cool” category

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