Astrocytes Control Breathing Through pH-Dependent Release of ATP

Alexander V. Gourine, Vitaliy Kasymov, Nephtali Marina, Feige Tang, Melina F. Figueiredo, Samantha Lane, Anja G. Teschemacher, K. Michael Spyer, Karl Deisseroth, Sergey Kasparov, Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Astrocytes Control Breathing Through pH-Dependent Release of ATP.Science 30 July 2010: Vol. 329. no. 5991, pp. 571 – 575