Nature Medicine
11, 919 - 920 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nm0905-919
Astrocytes get in the act in epilepsyMichael A Rogawski
The author is in the Epilepsy Research Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. michael.rogawski@nih.gov
Neurons in the brain of individuals with focal epilepsy exhibit sustained discharges, called paroxysmal depolarization shifts. Unexpected new evidence indicates that glutamate release from glia can generate these events, and may serve to synchronize the activity of neurons (pages 973−981).
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