Release probability of hippocampal glutamatergic terminals scales with the size of the active zone

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 988-997

  Holderith, Noemi ^a   Lorincz, Andrea ^a   Katona, Gergely ^a   Rózsa, Balázs ^a   Kulik, Akos ^b   Watanabe, Masahiko ^c   Nusser, Zoltan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; PROTEIN RIM1; PROTEIN RIM2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ACTIVE ZONE AREA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREEZE FRACTURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, N-TYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 84862860810     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3137     Document Type: Article

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