Kinetics of exocytosis is faster in cones than in rods

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 4633-4640

  Rabl, Katalin ^a   Cadetti, Lucia ^a   Thoreson, Wallace B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitance measurement; Photoreceptor; Postsynaptic current; Retina; Ribbon synapse; Tiger salamander

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL KINETICS; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BENZOTHIADIAZINES; CONES (RETINA); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXOCYTOSIS; KINETICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RODS (RETINA); SALAMANDRA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 18244408224     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4298-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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