# astrocyte.md

**Astrocyte**: 
Da un certo punto di vista Astrocyte e' come un Neurone, mette a disposizione SynBouton, che con Presynapse e Postynapse creano la Synapse. Ma la Synapse forse e' esterna al concetto di atrocyte? 

A single astrocyte has a highly branched structure with thousands of fine processes, each wrapping around a different synapse. A human cortical astrocyte can contact anywhere from 100,000 to 2 million synapses simultaneously. So the question of selectivity is real and important.


## ASTROCYTE: Comprehension

```Gen
ASTROCYTE

  type: comprehension

  include:
    synapse.md 
    astrocyte-dev.md

  expansion:
    - SYNAPSE ( fullness: 50x, active: 0x, emptiness: 0x )
      # managed_by: EXCITATION or INHIBITION from winnertakeall
      # modulated_by ??? from TUN.AST 
```