Fast vesicle replenishment allows indefatigable signalling at the first auditory synapse

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7039, 2005, Pages 212-215

  Griesinger, Claudius B ^a,c   Richards, Christopher D ^a   Ashmore, Jonathan F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NEUROLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FAST VESICLE REPLENISHMENT; INNER HAIR CELLS; NEUROTRANSMITTER-CONTAINING VESICLES; SYNAPTIC RIBBON;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

NEUROTRANSMITTER;

NEUROLOGY;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CELL MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; DEPOLARIZATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; GUINEA PIG; HAIR CELL; IMAGING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; TWO PHOTON IMAGING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAMSTER; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; COCHLEA; CRICETINAE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; KINETICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 18744384968     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03567     Document Type: Article

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