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The vesicles themselves inside the giant synapse are not larger, but it is much easier to follow their individual paths within the huge synapse. The real challenge was to establish a method to ...

But vesicle fusion is thought to be triggered by the much higher Ca 2+ concentrations (more than 100 μM) near the open mouth of individual Ca 2+ channels 6 . It now appears 2 , 3 that such high ...

The process of recycling at a synapse. First, lipid membrane capsules are recovered from the pre-synaptic terminal membrane. Then, the vesicles are refilled with neurotransmitter.

When the vesicles merge into the membrane and release their chemical cargo, the neurotransmitters float across the open synapse to the next neuron. This happens every time the neuron “fires.” ...

Schematic representation of axonal transport vesicles (blue) carrying presynaptic proteins (SV and AZ proteins). Kinesin motor proteins (KIF1A) attach these vesicles and carry them along the axons ...

The recycling pool consists of all vesicles stained with fluorescent dye when the synapse is stimulated at 10 Hz for one minute, a procedure that leads to saturated labeling of synapses 11,12 that ...

The synapse, a highly ordered and dynamic subcellular system, maintains autonomy, organization, and high-fidelity ...

He demonstrated that at a nerve cell's synapse, vesicles filled with neurotransmitters are poised at the cell surface, ready to fuse at a moment's notice.

The vesicle cycle describes the steps through which neurotransmitters (chemical signals) are released at a synapse (a junction between nerve cells), to transfer information between cells.

The vesicles themselves inside the giant synapse are not larger, but it is much easier to follow their individual paths within the huge synapse. The real challenge was to establish a method to ...

The vesicle cycle describes the steps through which neurotransmitters (chemical signals) are released at a synapse (a junction between nerve cells), to transfer information between cells.