“…Hence, astrocytic Ca 2ϩ -dependent glutamate release can be blocked with bafilomycin A 1 (Araque et al, 2000;Bezzi et al, 2001;Pasti et al, 2001), which specifically interferes with V-ATPase, leading to alkalinization of vesicular lumen and collapsing the proton gradient necessary for VGLUTs to transport glutamate into vesicles. Brain tissue expresses VGLUT 1 and 2 isoforms (Ni et al, 1994(Ni et al, , 1995Hisano et al, 2000;Bai et al, 2001) in glutamatergic neurons (Bellocchio et al, 1998;Fremeau et al, 2001;Fujiyama et al, 2001;Herzog et al, 2001;Sakata-Haga et al, 2001;Kaneko et al, 2002;Varoqui et al, 2002). Recently, there have been reports indicating the presence of a VGLUT 3 isoform in subpopulations of GABAergic (Fremeau et al, 2002), cholinergic, and monoaminergic neurons (Fremeau et al, 2002;Gras et al, 2002;Schafer et al, 2002) and some astrocytes (Fremeau et al, 2002).…”