Cocaine’s cerebrovascular vasoconstriction is associated with astrocytic Ca2+ increase in mice

Multimodal imaging of the mouse brain following acute cocaine application revealed that cocaine caused a biphasic calcium response in neurons, but not astrocytes, suggesting that these cells play different roles in mediating neurovascular coupling to cocaine.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yanzuo Liu, Yueming Hua, Kicheon Park, Nora D. Volkow, Yingtian Pan, Congwu Du
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03877-w