Interplay between facilitation, depression, and residual calcium at three presynaptic terminals

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1374-1385

  Dittman, Jeremy S ^a   Kreitzer, Anatol C ^a   Regehr, Wade G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellar granule cell; Cerebellar Purkinje cell; Climbing fiber; Hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell; Residual calcium; Schaffer collateral; Short term plasticity; Synaptic model

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; CLIMBING FIBER; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034652279     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-04-01374.2000     Document Type: Article

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