Watanabe Masahiko
Dept of Anatomy, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, 060-8638, Sapporo, Japan.
Trends Neurosci. 2002 Jan;25(1):5-6. doi: 10.1016/s0166-2236(00)01993-7.
Bergmann glia in the cerebellum elaborately ensheathe Purkinje cell dendrites and synapses, and express high levels of Ca(2+)-permeable glutamate receptors (GluRs). Suppression of the Ca(2+) permeability by virus-mediated GluR2 transfer has revealed that GluR-mediated Ca(2+) signaling is essential to maintain both structural and functional connections between the glial cell and the glutamatergic synapses.