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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 110, Issue 48, Pages E4678-E4687Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310065110
Keywords
neurovascular coupling; Ca2+ imaging; functional imaging; sensory barrel cortex
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- Lundbeck Foundation
- NOVONordisk Foundation
- Danish Medical Research Council
- NORDEA Foundation for the Center for Healthy Aging
- Fondation Leducq
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changes in astrocyte activity are rapid and widespread enough to contribute to brain blood flow control. Here, we provide evidence for stimulus-evoked Ca2+ elevations with rapid onset and short duration in a large proportion of cortical astrocytes in the adult mouse somatosensory cortex. Our improved detection of the fast Ca2+ signals is due to a signal-enhancing analysis of the Ca2+ activity. The rapid stimulation-evoked Ca2+ increases identified in astrocyte somas, processes, and end-feet preceded local vasodilatation. Fast Ca2+ responses in both neurons and astrocytes correlated with synaptic activity, but only the astrocytic responses correlated with the hemodynamic shifts. These data establish that a large proportion of cortical astrocytes have brief Ca2+ responses with a rapid onset in vivo, fast enough to initiate hemodynamic responses or influence synaptic activity.
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