A new study shows that astrocytes use a protein called Gat3 to manage ambient GABA levels, helping neurons work together to ...

Cells called astrocytes are about as abundant in the brain as neurons, but scientists have spent much less time figuring out ...

MIT researchers found that astrocytes regulate ambient GABA via Gat3 to support coordinated neural activity in the visual ...

CRISPR construct to genetically ablate the GABA transporter GAT3 in the mouse visual cortex, with effects on population-level neuronal activity. This work is important, as it sheds light on how GAT3 ...

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This study localizes the source of the reflex to a portion of the brain called the dorsal periaqueductal gray (dPAG). The fleeing species showed much greater activity in this brain region when it ...