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A broad view of glutamate spillover

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Glutamate released from one synapse can act at neighboring synapses. A new report shows that such 'spillover' enables synapses to cooperate in activating mutual neighbors.

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Figure 1: Different models for glutamate spillover in the hippocampus.

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