Diamond Jeffrey S
NIH/NINDS, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Cell. 2006 May 19;125(4):639-41. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.05.006.
In this issue of Cell, Panatier et al. (2006) show that D-serine released by astrocytes, a type of glial cell in the brain, promotes NMDA receptor activity at synapses in the hypothalamus. These results confirm that glial cells participate in synaptic signaling and show that they can dictate the tenor of synaptic plasticity.
在本期《细胞》杂志中，帕纳蒂尔等人（2006年）表明，由星形胶质细胞（大脑中的一种神经胶质细胞）释放的D-丝氨酸可促进下丘脑突触处的NMDA受体活性。这些结果证实神经胶质细胞参与突触信号传导，并表明它们能够决定突触可塑性的性质。
