Parallel Processing in Two Transmitter Microenvironments at the Cone Photoreceptor Synapse

Neuron

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 735-748

  DeVries, Steven H ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Saszik, Shannon ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MOLNEURO; SIGNALING

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EVOKED RESPONSE; MICROENVIRONMENT; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SQUIRREL; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); DENDRITES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, KAINIC ACID; RETINAL BIPOLAR CELLS; SCIURIDAE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 33646833236     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.04.034     Document Type: Article

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