A tale of two stories: astrocyte regulation of synaptic depression and facilitation.

A tale of two stories: astrocyte regulation of synaptic depression and facilitation.

Short-term presynaptic plasticity designates variations of the amplitude of synaptic information transfer whereby the amount of neurotransmitter released upon presynaptic stimulation changes over seconds as a function of the neuronal firing activity. While a consensus has emerged that the resulting...

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Main Authors: Maurizio De Pittà, Vladislav Volman, Hugues Berry, Eshel Ben-Jacob
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22162957/?tool=EBI

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