Optical quantal analysis of synaptic transmission in wild-type and rab3-mutant Drosophila motor axons

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 519-526

  Peled, Einat S ^a   Isacoff, Ehud Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAB PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROBABILITY; RAB3 GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 79953200774     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2767     Document Type: Article

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