RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 <em>Science Signaling</em> Podcast: 9 November 2010
JF Science Signaling
JO Sci. Signal.
FD American Association for the Advancement of Science
SP pc20
OP pc20
DO 10.1126/scisignal.3147pc20
VO 3
IS 147
A1 Fields, R. Douglas
A1 VanHook, Annalisa M.
YR 2010
UL http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/3/147/pc20.abstract
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.