Calcium compartments in brain.

Excellent progress has been made toward understanding the physiology and pharmacology of specific calcium-related cellular processes of the brain, but few studies have provided an integrated view of brain calcium kinetics. To further the knowledge of the size and binding properties of brain calcium compartments, the authors have conducted a series of experiments in hippocampal brain slices exposed to high and low extracellular calcium. Slices were incubated in buffers containing 0.