Neurotransmitter release - four years of SNARE complexes

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 310-315

  Hanson, Phyllis I ^a   Heuser, John E ^b   Jahn, Reinhard ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOCYTOSIS; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

EID: 0030846539     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(97)80057-8     Document Type: Article

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