Neurotransmitter release: variations on a theme.
Similarities between the ways that synaptic vesicles and large dense-core vesicles release their contents have been emphasized, but recent studies have revealed important mechanistic differences between these two exocytotic processes.
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Departments of Neurology and Physiology, UCSF School of Medicine, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94143-0435, USA. edwards@itsa.ucsf.edu
D000818:Animals; D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D003594:Cytoplasmic Granules / Q000378:metabolism; D005089:Exocytosis / Q000502:physiology; D015801:Helminth Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D008561:Membrane Fusion / Q000502:physiology; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents / Q000378:metabolism*; D050600:SNARE Proteins; D013572:Synaptic Vesicles / Q000378:metabolism; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins
D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D015801:Helminth Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents; D050600:SNARE Proteins; C107581:UNC-31 protein, C elegans; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins