Time course of release of content of single vesicles in bovine chromaffin cells

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 431, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 729-735

  Walker, A ^a   Glavinovic M I ^a   Trifaro J M ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon electrodes; Chromaffin cells; Diffusional broadening; Scatterogram; Vesicular secretion

Indexed keywords

BARIUM CHLORIDE; LANTHANUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CATTLE; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; EXOCYTOSIS; HISTOGRAM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029881968     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02253836     Document Type: Article

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