title: Electrostatic attraction: the driving force for the presynaptic vesicle-cell membrane fusion.
abstract: In this theoretical conception, it is suggested that the driving force for presynaptic vesicle-cell membrane fusion during action potential that results with the neurotransmitter release is the electrostatic attraction of the differently charged outer lipid layer of the presynaptic vesicle membrane and the inner lipid layer of the cell membrane. All other previously described processes that take place during presynaptic vesicle-cell membrane fusion could serve to modulate the basic electrostatic process presented here.
authors.affiliation: Klenounik Hospital, Croatia.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Trkanjec
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000502:physiology*; D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D008561:Membrane Fusion; D008563:Membrane Lipids / Q000502:physiology; D008959:Models, Neurological; D055672:Static Electricity; D013572:Synaptic Vesicles / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D008563:Membrane Lipids