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ReviewNeurochemical research2012

Exocytosis in astrocytes: transmitter release and membrane signal regulation.

Alenka Guček, Nina Vardjan, Robert Zorec

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Review in Neurochemical research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Calcium signaling in astrocytes and gliotransmitter release.Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience · 2023
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  4. Exocytosis in Astrocytes.Biomolecules · 2021
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  6. Gliocrine System: Astroglia as Secretory Cells of the CNS.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2019
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  12. Astrocyte Aquaporin Dynamics in Health and Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alenka GučekLaboratory of Neuroendocrinology-Molecular Cell Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Zaloška 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Nina Vardjan
Robert Zorec
Celica (Slovenia) · SIIkerbasque · ESUniversity of Ljubljana · SI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Astrocytes, a type of glial cells in the brain, are eukaryotic cells, and a hallmark of these are subcellular organelles, such as secretory vesicles. In neurons vesicles play a key role in signaling. Upon a stimulus-an increase in cytosolic concentration of free Ca(2+) ([Ca(2+)](i))-the membrane of vesicle fuses with the presynaptic plasma membrane, allowing the exit of neurotransmitters into the extracellular space and their diffusion to the postsynaptic receptors. For decades it was thought that such vesicle-based mechanisms of gliotransmitter release were not present in astrocytes. However, in the last 30 years experimental evidence showed that astrocytes are endowed with mechanisms for vesicle- and non-vesicle-based gliotransmitter release mechanisms. The aim of this review is to focus on exocytosis, which may play a role in gliotransmission and also in other forms of cell-to-cell communication, such as the delivery of transporters, ion channels and antigen presenting molecules to the cell surface.

Indexed as

ExocytosisSignal TransductionAnimalsAstrocytesCalciumCell MembraneHumansNeurotransmitter AgentsCalciumNeurotransmitter Agents

Identifiers

PMID22528833
OpenAlexW2036684373

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