PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fields, R. Douglas
AU  - VanHook, Annalisa M.
TI  - <em>Science Signaling</em> Podcast: 9 November 2010
AID  - 10.1126/scisignal.3147pc20
DP  - 2010 Nov 09
TA  - Science Signaling
PG  - pc20--pc20
VI  - 3
IP  - 147
4099  - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/3/147/pc20.short
4100  - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/3/147/pc20.full
SO  - Sci. Signal.2010 Nov 09; 3
AB  - This is a conversation with Doug Fields about a Research Article published in the 5 October 2010 issue of Science Signaling. Fields and Ni report that axonal swelling allows neurons to communicate with glia by releasing ATP through volume-activated anion channels. This nonvesicular, nonsynaptic form of communication may mediate activity-dependent communication between neurons and neighboring cells under normal conditions and may play a role in disease.