Astrocytic Ion Dynamics: Implications for Potassium Buffering and Liquid Flow

  • Halnes G
  • Pettersen K
  • Øyehaug L
  • et al.
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Abstract

We review modeling of astrocyte ion dynamics with a specific focus on the implications of so-called spatial potassium buffering, where excess potassium in the extracellular space (ECS) is transported away to prevent pathological neural spiking. The recently introduced Kirchoff-Nernst-Planck (KNP) scheme for modeling ion dynamics in astrocytes (and brain tissue in general) is outlined and used to study such spatial buffering. We next describe how the ion dynamics of astrocytes may regulate microscopic liquid flow by osmotic effects and how such microscopic flow can be linked to whole-brain macroscopic flow. We thus include the key elements in a putative multiscale theory with astrocytes linking neural activity on a microscopic scale to macroscopic fluid flow.

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Halnes, G., Pettersen, K. H., Øyehaug, L., Rognes, M. E., & Einevoll, G. T. (2019). Astrocytic Ion Dynamics: Implications for Potassium Buffering and Liquid Flow (pp. 363–391). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00817-8_14

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