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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 19.
Published in final edited form as: Neuron. 2014 Feb 19;81(4):728–739. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.02.007

Table 1.

Gliotransmitter Brain area Neuromodulation
Glutamate Hippocampus Depression of evoked EPSCs and IPSCs Araque et al 1998a; Liu et al 2004a
Frequency increase of miniature PSCs Araque et al 1998b, Santello et al. 2011
Frequency increase of miniature IPSCs Kang et al 1998
Frequency increase of spontaneous EPSCs Jourdain et al 2007, Fiacco and McCarthy 2004
Frequency increase of spontaneous IPSCs Liu et al. 2004b
Postsynaptic SIC Araque et al., 1998a; Pasti et al. 2001; Sanzgiri et al. 1999; Angulo et al. 2004; Fellin et al. 2004; Cavelier and Attwell 2005; Kang et al. 2005; Perea and Araque 2005; Tian et al. 2005; Fellin et al. 2006; Nestor et al. 2007; Navarrete and Araque 2008; Shigetomi et al. 2008; Sasaki et al., 2011; Navarrete et al. 2013
Increase of neuronal excitability Bezzi et al. 1998
Heterosynaptic depression Andersson et al. 2007
Modulation of LTD Han et al. 2012
Modulation of LTP Navarrete et al. 2012
Synaptic potentiation Perea and Araque 2007; Navarrete and Araque 2010; Navarrete et al. 2012
Modulation of Action-Potential Sasaki et al. 2011
Modulation of basal synaptic transmision Bonansco et al. 2011
Regulation of mEPSC kinetics Han et al., 2013
Cortex Postsynaptic SIC Ding et al. 2007; Gomez-Gonzalo et al., 2010; Navarrete et al. 2013; Chen et al. 2012
Modulation of LTD Min and Nevian 2012
Ventro basal thalamus Postsynaptic SIC Parri et al. 2001
Spinal cord dorsal horn Postsynaptic SIC Bardoni et al., 2010; Nie et al., 2010
Medial nucleus of the trapezoid body Postsynaptic SIC Reyes-haro et al., 2010
ATP/Adenosine Hippocampus Heterosynaptic depression of EPSCs Serrano et al. 2006; Zhang et al. 2003; Chen et al. 2013; Pascual et al. 2005
Modulation of LTP Pascual et al. 2005; Schmitt et al. 2012; Lee HU et al. 2013
Basal synaptic depresion Pascual et al. 2005
Regulation of basal neurotransmission Di Castro et al. 2011; Panatier et al. 2011
Depression of evoked EPSCs Martin et al Glia 2007
Cortex Regulation of basal synaptic transmission Halassa et al. 2009
Regulation of cortical slow oscilations Fellin et al. 2009
Cerebellum Depression of spontaneous EPSCs Brockhaus and Deitmer 2002
Retina Light-evoked neuronal activity Newman and Zahs, 1998
Depression of light-evoked EPSCs Newman, 2003
Nucleus accumbens Postsynaptic SIC D’Ascenzo et al. 2007
Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus Increase of EPSC amplitude Gordon et al. 2005; Gordon et al. 2009
Medulla oblongata Activation of chemoreceptor neurons Gourine et al. 2010
D-Serine Hippocampus Modulation of LTP Yang et al, 2003; Henneberger et al, 2010; Zhang et al, 2008
Cortex Modulation of LTP/LTD Takata et al. 2011; Fossat et al. 2012
Retina Potentiation of NMDA receptor transmission Stevens et al. 2003
Hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus Modulation of LTP/LTD Panatier et al. 2006
Amygdala Modulation of NMDA receptors Li et al. 2013
TNFα Hippocampus Insertion of AMPA receptors Beattie et al. 2002
Increase of synaptic scaling Stellwagen et al. 2006
GABA Hippocampus Postsynaptic SOC Le Meur et al. 2012
Cerebellum Tonic current Lee et al. 2010
Olfactory bulb Postsynaptic SOC Kozlov et al. 2006
Undefined Cortex Regulation of cortical up states Poskanzer and Yuste 2011
Neuromuscular junction Synaptic depression Robitaille 1998; Perez- Gonzalez et al. 2008
Synaptic potentiation Castonguay and Robitaille 2001