Slow glycinergic transmission mediated by transmitter pooling

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 286-294

  Balakrishnan, Veeramuthu ^a   Kuo, Sidney P ^a   Roberts, Patrick D ^b   Trussell, Laurence O ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Oregon Health and Science University Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; GRANULE CELL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; GLYCINE; GLYCINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PYRIDAZINES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; SARCOSINE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 60749107702     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2265     Document Type: Article

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