“…ATP is a potent inducer of EV shedding in several cell types, including microglia and astrocytes (Bianco et al, 2005(Bianco et al, , 2009Takenouchi et al, 2015). In brain, ATP can be co-released from neurons with other neurotransmitters (Edwards, Gibb, & Colquhoun, 1992;Silinsky, Gerzanich, & Vanner, 1992;Sperlagh, Kittel, Lajtha, & Vizi, 1995), and from astrocytes in response to glutamate, mechanical stretch, activation of toll-like receptor 3, and glucocorticoids (Beckel et al, 2018;Guthrie et al, 1999;Koyanagi et al, 2016;Queiroz, Gebicke-Haerter, Schobert, Starke, & von Kügelgen, 1997;Xiong et al, 2018). Extracellular ATP signals by binding to P2 receptors that include ionotropic P2X (P2X1−7) and metabotropic P2Y receptors (P2Y1, 2, 4, 6, 11-14;reviewed in Burnstock, 2007).…”