Shaping the synaptic signal: Molecular mobility inside and outside the cleft

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 359-369

  Rusakov, Dmitri A ^a   Savtchenko, Leonid P ^a   Zheng, Kaiyu ^a   Henley, Jeremy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

DIFFUSION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79959888140     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2011.03.002     Document Type: Review

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