Evidence that vesicles on the synaptic ribbon of retinal bipolar neurons can be rapidly released

Neuron

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1221-1227

  Von Gersdorff, Henrique ^a,c   Vardi, Eilat ^b   Matthews, Gary ^a   Sterling, Peter ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; EXOCYTOSIS; GOLDFISH; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

EID: 0030175780     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80148-8     Document Type: Article

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