A single packet of transmitter does not saturate postsynaptic glutamate receptors

Neuron

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 613-621

  Ishikawa, Taro ^a   Sahara, Yoshinori ^a,b   Takahashi, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXOCYTOSIS; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PIPETTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037118256     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00692-X     Document Type: Article

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