Sustaining rapid vesicular release at active zones: Potential roles for vesicle tethering

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 185-194

  Hallermann, Stefan ^a   Silver, R Angus ^b  

^a EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active zone; High frequency signaling; Synapse; Vesicle tethering

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; MATRIX PROTEIN; MUNC18 PROTEIN; PRESYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; SNARE PROTEIN;

DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; SNARE PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 84875260754     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2012.10.001     Document Type: Review

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