Regulation of transmitter release by Ca2+ and synaptotagmin: Insights from a large CNS synapse

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 237-246

  Kochubey, Olexiy ^a   Lou, Xuelin ^b   Schneggenburger, Ralf ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; NEURONAL CALCIUM SENSOR; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNAPTOTAGMIN II;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALLOSTERISM; CALCIUM BINDING; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DYNAMICS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOTAGMINS;

EID: 79955731559     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2011.02.006     Document Type: Review

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