09 October 2025
Leaflets and Signals
Multifunctional brain cells called astrocytes have delicate projections called leaflets which envelop neuron-neuron synapses (connections). Using volumetric high-resolution electron microscopy and two-photon Ca2+ (which signifies electrical activity) imaging, this study reveals without damaging their structure the details of how the astrocyte leaflets integrate signals from multiple synapses from different neurons
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- Still from a video from work by Lucas Benoit, Ines Hristovska and Nicolas Liaudet, and colleagues
- University Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1216, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, Grenoble, France; Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Cell, September 2025
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