Counting vesicular release events reveals binomial release statistics at single glutamatergic synapses

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 4010-4025

  Malagon, Gerardo ^a   Miki, Takafumi ^a   Llano, Isabel ^a   Neher, Erwin ^b   Marty, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMPA receptor; Cerebellum; Glutamate; Synaptic release; Synaptic vesicles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SYSTEMATIC DESENSITIZATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 84964053933     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4352-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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