Local routes revisited: The space and time dependence of the Ca2+ signal for phasic transmitter release at the rat calyx of Held

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 547, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 665-689

  Meinrenken, Christoph J ^a   Borst, J Gerard G ^b   Sakmann, Bert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL ACTIVATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHANNEL GATING; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECORDING; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SQUID; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037444568     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.032714     Document Type: Review

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