Fast vesicle reloading and a large pool sustain high bandwidth transmission at a central synapse

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7079, 2006, Pages 983-987

  Saviane, Chiara ^a   Silver, R Angus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; QUANTUM THEORY; SENSORS;

DESENSITIZATION; HIGH-FREQUENCY TRANSMISSION;

BANDWIDTH;

NEUROLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; GRANULE CELL; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTICITY; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33644506134     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04509     Document Type: Article

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