Timing of synaptic transmission

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1999, Pages 521-542

  Sabatini, B L ^a   Regehr, W G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium channel activation; Conduction velocity; EPSC; Presynaptic waveform; Synaptic delay

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM TRANSPORT; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUND DETECTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; REACTION TIME; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032998204     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.61.1.521     Document Type: Review

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