Astrocytic glutamate uptake coordinates experience-dependent, eye-specific refinement in developing visual cortex
Grayson O. Sipe, Jeremy Petravicz, Rajeev Vijay Rikhye…·Mriganka Sur
This study shows that astrocytic glutamate uptake via GLT1 is essential for experience-dependent refinement of ipsilateral eye inputs in the visual cortex, with disruptions causing altered binocular matching and plasticity.