Statistics of transmitter release at nerve terminals

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 545-606

  Bennett, M R ^a   Kearns, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Quanta; Statistics; Synapse

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; EXOCYTOSIS; HYPOTHESIS; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; KINETICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE ENDINGS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS;

EID: 0033963282     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0082(99)00040-4     Document Type: Review

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