“…As mentioned previously, EAATs are expressed on astrocytes and oligodendrocyte cells both in resting and during activation states, whereas microglia express these transporters only when activated by immune factors such as LPS (Persson et al, 2005). Inflammatory molecules such as IL-1β and TNF released during immune activation suppress astrocytic expression of GLT-1 and GLAST glutamate transporters (similar to EAAT2 and EAAT1 in humans) in cell culture experiments (Korn et al, 2005;Szymocha et al, 2000;Wang et al, 2013a;Ye and Sontheimer, 1996), and EAAT2 expression is diminished in inflammatory CNS lesions of both laboratory animals and humans (Ohgoh et al, 2002;Vercellino et al, 2007). Several excellent reviews on this topic are available for further reference (Malarkey and Parpura, 2008;Ohgoh et al, 2002;Tavares et al, 2002;Tilleux and Hermans, 2007;Vercellino et al, 2007).…”