Untangling Complexities of Glial-Neuronal Communications: Astroglial Metabolic Cascades Orchestrate Tonic Inhibition in the Thalamus

Alexei Verkhratsky

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.10.025

Untangling Complexities of Glial-Neuronal Communications: Astroglial Metabolic Cascades Orchestrate Tonic Inhibition in the Thalamus

Alexei Verkhratsky^*

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Division of Neuroscience

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Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Kwak et al. describe novel astroglial pathway for synthesis of GABA, which is subsequently released through plasmalemmal Best1 channels to control neuronal excitability and tactile acuity through tonic inhibition of thalamic neurons.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	585-587
Number of pages	3
Journal	Neuron
Volume	108
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.10.025
Publication status	Published - 25 Nov 2020

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Untangling Complexities of Glial-Neuronal Communications: Astroglial Metabolic Cascades Orchestrate Tonic Inhibition in the Thalamus

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