“…The mechanism first suggested to explain this effect involved negative charges maintained by the ECM (Glykys et al, 2014a). However, the proposal questioned the previously ascribed role of the cation‐chloride cotransporters, Na + ‐K + ‐Cl − ‐cotransporter 1 (NKCC1) and K + ‐Cl − ‐cotransporter 2 (KCC2) and has been questioned and remains controversial (Ben‐Ari, 2014; Cho, 2014; Delpire and Staley, 2014; Glykys et al, 2014b; Kaila et al, 2014; Luhmann et al, 2014; Voipio et al, 2014; Savtchenko et al, 2017). NKCC1 and KCC2 remain seen as the main controllers of [Cl − ] i .…”