Structural determinants of transmission at large hippocampal mossy fiber synapses

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 39, 2007, Pages 10434-10444

  Rollenhagen, Astrid ^a,c   Sätzler, Kurt ^b   Rodríguez, E Patricia ^b   Jonas, Peter ^c   Frotscher, Michael ^c   Lübke, Joachim H R ^a,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mossy fiber; Neuromodulation; Synapse; Synaptic plasticity; Synaptic transmission; Synaptic vesicle release

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GEOMETRY; GLIA CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 34848898788     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1946-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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