Calcium regulation of neurotransmitter release: Reliably unreliable?

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 513-518

  Goda, Yukiko ^a   Südhof, Thomas C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SYNAPTOBREVIN; SYNTAXIN;

EXOCYTOSIS; MEMBRANE FUSION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0343307123     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(97)80027-0     Document Type: Article

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