Critique: Are mechanisms of exocytosis neurotransmitter specific?

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 759-761

  Zimmermann, Herbert ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; RAB PROTEIN; SYNAPSIN I; SYNAPTOBREVIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN; SYNTAXIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS;

CELL GRANULE; CHROMAFFIN GRANULE; ELECTRON; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SYNAPSE VESICLE; ANIMAL; CELL ORGANELLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; EXOCYTOSIS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; ORGANELLES;

EID: 0031303970     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-0186(97)00045-4     Document Type: Article

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