Are some minis multiquantal?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1293-1304

  Frerking, Matthew ^a,b   Borges, Salvador ^a   Wilson, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO; EVOKED RESPONSE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030756584     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.3.1293     Document Type: Article

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