Electron microscopic tomography reveals discrete transcleft elements at excitatory and inhibitory synapses

Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  High, Brigit ^a   Cole, Andy A ^a,b   Chen, Xiaobing ^a   Reese, Thomas S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion molecules; Electron microscopy; EM tomography; Synapses; Synaptic cleft

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

EID: 84949635810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16633563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2015.00009     Document Type: Article

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