Modelling vesicular release at hippocampal synapses

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Nadkarni, Suhita ^a,b   Bartol, Thomas M ^a,b   Sejnowski, Terrence J ^a,b,c   Levine, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MICROSTRUCTURE; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; CALCIUM DYNAMICS; CALCIUM SENSORS; KINETIC MODELS; LONG MEMORY; PRESYNAPTIC; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; STOCHASTICS; VESICLE FUSION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINETICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXOCYTOSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CA3 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CALCIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXOCYTOSIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 78649640094     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000983     Document Type: Article

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