Ca2+ from one or two channels controls fusion of a single vesicle at the frog neuromuscular junction

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 51, 2006, Pages 13240-13249

  Shahrezaei, Vahid ^a,c   Cao, Alex ^b   Delaney, Kerry R ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calcium channels; Calcium imaging; Colocalization; Monte Carlo; Transmitter release; Vesicle

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; OMEGA CONOTOXIN GVIA; CALCIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FROG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE VESICLE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEMBRANE FUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; SYNAPTOSOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; MEMBRANE FUSION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RANA PIPIENS; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 33845799621     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1418-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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