Nature Neuroscience
4, 676 - 678 (2001)
doi:10.1038/89443
A chemokine−glutamate connectionNicola J. Allen
& David Attwell
The authors are in the Department of Physiology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
d.attwell@ucl.ac.uk
Chemokine signaling releases glutamate from astrocytes. This process can be amplified by microglia, inducing neurotoxicity, and activated by the HIV coat protein gp120.
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