Glutamate escape from a tortuous synaptic cleft of the hippocampal mossy fibre synapse

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 479-484

  Savtchenko, Leonid P ^a,b   Rusakov, Dmitri A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OLES HONCHAR DNIPRO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Area CA3; Glutamate spillover; LTP; Postsynaptic

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ARTICLE; DENDRITE; GEOMETRY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DIFFUSION; GLUTAMIC ACID; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; SYNAPSES;

SPINY;

EID: 2942623876     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2003.11.008     Document Type: Article

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