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SUBMITTER: Tewari SG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3388198 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tewari Shivendra G SG Majumdar Kaushik Kumar KK
Journal of biological physics 20120527 3
In this paper, we present a biologically detailed mathematical model of tripartite synapses, where astrocytes modulate short-term synaptic plasticity. The model consists of a pre-synaptic bouton, a post-synaptic dendritic spine-head, a synaptic cleft and a peri-synaptic astrocyte controlling Ca(2 + ) dynamics inside the synaptic bouton. This in turn controls glutamate release dynamics in the cleft. As a consequence of this, glutamate concentration in the cleft has been modeled, in which glutamat ...[more]