Augmentation is a potentiation of the exocytotic process

Neuron

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 139-146

  Stevens, Charles F ^a   Wesseling, John F ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION; EXOCYTOSIS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0032954190     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80685-6     Document Type: Article

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