Evanescent-wave microscopy: A new tool to gain insight into the control of transmitter release

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1381, 1999, Pages 307-318

  Oheim, Martin ^a,b   Loerke, Dinah ^a   Chow, Robert H ^b   Stühmer, Walter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ca2+ triggered exocytosis; Diffusion; Docking; Evanescent wave microscopy; Optical sectioning; Total internal reflection

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0033611686     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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