Switching between transient and sustained signalling at the rod bipolar-AII amacrine cell synapse of the mouse retina

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2443-2455

  Snellman, Josefin ^b   Zenisek, David ^b   Nawy, Scott ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CYCLOPROPYL 4 PHOSPHONOPHENYLGLYCINE; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC GMP; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 6;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LATENT PERIOD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; VOLTAGE CLAMP; AII AMACRINE CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELLULAR, SUBCELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PROTON INHIBITION; RETINA; SUSTAINED SIGNALLING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSIENT SIGNALLING; VESICLE DEPLETION; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CYCLIC GMP; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLYCINE; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 66549128896     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.165241     Document Type: Article

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