Super-resolution microscopy of the synaptic active zone

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Ehmann, Nadine ^a   Sauer, Markus ^a   Kittel, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active zone; Ca2+ channels; Excitation secretion coupling; Structure function relationships; Super resolution microscopy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; DIRECT STOCHASTIC OPTICAL RECONSTRUCTION MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHOTO ACTIVATED LOCALIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY; SUPER RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 84922154929     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00007     Document Type: Article

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