Timing and efficacy of transmitter release at mossy fiber synapses in the hippocampal network

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 453, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 361-372

  Bischofberger, Josef ^a   Engel, Dominique ^a   Frotscher, Michael ^a   Jonas, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoassociative networks; Episodic memory; Hippocampus; Mossy fiber boutons; Mossy fiber synapses; Presynaptic recording; Synaptic efficacy

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DENTATE GYRUS; EXOCYTOSIS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33748651454     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: 14322013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-006-0093-2     Document Type: Review

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