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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 12.
Published in final edited form as: Neural Comput. 2011 Jan 11;23(4):984–1014. doi: 10.1162/NECO_a_00101

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Comparison of [Glu]syn and [Glu]ex under control basal conditions for various glial configurations shown in Figure 4, using the same set of parameters, with configuration G as the baseline model. As expected, porous glia (configuration A) with zero diffusion path length supported no neurotransmitter gradient. The dotted line connects the gradient ([Glu]ex - [Glu]syn) achieved by each of these configurations. The diffusion path length increased from configuration A to G, and this path length was correlated to the neurotransmitter gradient between the ECS and the synaptic cleft.