SLC1A2 and Anxiety: In a recent paper, the same authors further investigated the role of BLA astrocytes in chronic stress-mediated anxiety levels [86] and found that, after 4 weeks of the UCMS protocol, stressed male mice showed an upregulation of GLT-1 in astrocytes from the BLA, with no changes in astrocyte GLT-1 expression in PFC and hippocampus.