Conical electron tomography of a chemical synapse: Vesicles docked to the active zone are hemi-fused

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2910-2918

  Zampighi, G A ^a,b   Zampighi, L M ^a   Fain, N ^a   Lanzavecchia, S ^c   Simon, S A ^d   Wright, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; RAT; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 33749525657     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.084814     Document Type: Article

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