Astrocytes integrate and drive action potential firing in inhibitory subnetworks

Specific types of inhibitory neurons exhibit prolonged, high-frequency barrages of action potentials. Here, the authors show that astrocytes might mediate such barrage firing.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tara Deemyad, Joel Lüthi, Nelson Spruston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06338-3