Lab head at RIKEN Center for Brain Science for glia-neuron research in health and disease.
Oct 15 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Just out! “The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory.” We identified astrocytic ensembles that link experiences across days to stabilize memory nature.com/articles/s4158…. New astrocyte tools are openly available at Addgene: addgene.org/Jun_Nagai/. 1/8
Not all experiences become stable memories. Emotionally salient or repeated experiences are often stabilized, but the mechanism has remained elusive. We asked whether astrocytes, rather than neurons, might provide the missing cellular substrate for this stabilization process. 2/8
