Department of Biology and National Center for Behavioral Genomics, MS008, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA.
Curr Biol. 2011 May 10;21(9):R313-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.056.
Brain circuits are generally thought to consist solely of neurons communicating with other neurons. In Drosophila, glia-to-neuron signaling has now been shown to be critical to the function of the circadian circuit.
人们普遍认为,大脑回路仅由神经元与其他神经元进行通讯构成。然而,在果蝇中,神经胶质细胞向神经元的信号传递对于生物钟回路的功能至关重要。