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Astrocytes as aide-mémoires

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Memory formation is known to occur at the level of synaptic contacts between neurons. It therefore comes as a surprise that another type of brain cell, the astrocyte, is also involved in establishing memory.

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Figure 1: Astrocytes and synaptic memory.

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  1. Mirko Santello and Andrea Volterra are in the Department of Cell Biology and Morphology, University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 9, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland. andrea.volterra@unil.ch,

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