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Monitoring the Activity of Astrocytes in Learning and Memory

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This Research Highlight was supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China (2021ZD0202704), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31830033, 82090032), the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT_16R37), the Key Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (2018B030334001, 2018B030340001), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2020A1515110565), and the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (202007030013).

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Wu, JL., Gao, TM. Monitoring the Activity of Astrocytes in Learning and Memory. Neurosci. Bull. 38, 1117–1120 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-022-00894-x

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