Controversies in synaptic vesicle exocytosis

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 116, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 3661-3666

  Weimer, Robby M ^a   Jorgensen, Erik M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM SENSING RECEPTOR; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROTEIN UNC 18; RAB PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; EXOCYTOSIS; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE FUSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAB3 GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SNARE PROTEINS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; SYNAPTOTAGMINS; VACUOLAR PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0141704073     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00687     Document Type: Review

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