Tracking presynaptic Ca2+ dynamics during neurotransmitter release with Ca2+-activated K+ channels

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 566-571

  Yazejian, Bruce ^a   Sun, Xiao Ping ^a   Grinnell, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; IBERIOTOXIN; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; OMEGA CONOTOXIN GVIA; PEPTIDE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTOSOME; XENOPUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MUSCLES; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OMEGA-CONOTOXIN GVIA; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; REACTION TIME; XENOPUS;

EID: 0033625431     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/75737     Document Type: Article

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