Calcium channel types with distinct presynaptic localization couple differentially to transmitter release in single calyx-type synapses

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 726-736

  Wu, Ling Gang ^a   Westenbroek, Ruth E ^b   Borst, J Gerard G ^a   Catterall, William A ^b   Sakmann, Bert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; Ca2+ channels; Calyx of Held; Channels; Fura 2; Immunocytochemistry; N type Ca2+ channels; P type Ca2+ channels; Presynaptic; R type Ca2+; Rat; Synaptotagmin; Voltage clamp

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CALCIUM BINDING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0033555416     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-02-00726.1999     Document Type: Article

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