The olfactory glomerulus: a model for neuro-glio-vascular biology.
The cellular basis of brain imaging is emerging as a new frontier in current neuroscience. In this issue of Neuron, Petzold et al. analyze a model system, the olfactory glomerulus, to show how neurovascular coupling involves an elaborate dance between axon terminals, presynaptic and postsynaptic dendrites, glial cells, and the capillary network.
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Gordon M
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Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. gordon.shepherd@yale.edu
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