Advances in imaging ultrastructure yield new insights into presynaptic biology

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Bruckner, Joseph J ^a   Zhan, Hong ^a   O’Connor Giles, Kate M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Active zone; Electron microscopy; Presynapse; Synaptic vesicle; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CRYOPRESERVATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; IMAGING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE VESICLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 84930503820     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00196     Document Type: Review

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