“…This mechanism is called store-operated calcium entry (SOCE; Putney, 1986 ), and it has been extensively studied in non-excitable cells, for which SOCE acts as a principal Ca 2+ entry pathway (Parekh and Putney, 2005 ; Prakriya and Lewis, 2015 ). Conversely, the relevance of neuronal SOCE is being debated (Lu and Fivaz, 2016 ). In the last few years, SOCE activity has been observed in hippocampal (Emptage et al, 2001 ; Baba et al, 2003 ; Kann et al, 2012 ; Sun et al, 2014 ; Samtleben et al, 2015 ), cortical (Berna-Erro et al, 2009 ; Klejman et al, 2009 ; Gruszczynska-Biegala et al, 2011 ), cerebellar (Baba et al, 2003 ; Hartmann et al, 2014 ), sensory (Gemes et al, 2011 ) and dorsal horn neurons (Xia et al, 2014 ).…”