The amplitude of quantal currents is reduced during short-term depression at neuromuscular synapses in Drosophila

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-8

  Adelsberger, Helmuth ^a   Heckmann, Manfred ^a   Dudel, Josef ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Desensitization; Excitatory postsynaptic currents; Non N methyl D aspartate receptor; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ION CURRENT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; QUANTUM THEORY; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030975578     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00167-5     Document Type: Article

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