Independent Regulation of Basal Neurotransmitter Release Efficacy by Variable Ca2+ Influx and Bouton Size at Small Central Synapses

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Ermolyuk, Yaroslav S ^a   Alder, Felicity G ^a   Henneberger, Christian ^a,b   Rusakov, Dmitri A ^a   Kullmann, Dimitri M ^a   Volynski, Kirill E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL FUSION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BUFFERS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; EXOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

ELLIPTIO ICTERINA;

EID: 84866667662     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001396     Document Type: Article

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