Functional properties of synaptic transmission in primary sense organs

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 41, 2009, Pages 12802-12806

  Singer, Joshua H ^a   Glowatzki, Elisabeth ^b   Moser, Tobias ^c   Strowbridge, Ben W ^d   Bhandawat, Vikas ^e   Sampath, Alapakkam P ^f  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; BRAIN; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYNAMICS; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHOTON; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA ROD; SENSE ORGAN; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SOUND; STIMULATION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SENSE ORGANS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 70350450546     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3346-09.2009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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