title: Looking into the Black Box of Synaptic Vesicle Recruitment.
abstract: To sustain ongoing synaptic transmission, new transmitter-filled vesicles must be recruited to empty release sites rapidly. However, in this issue of Neuron, Midorikawa and Sakaba (2015) show that, before being released, vesicles are tethered at the membrane for seconds.
authors.affiliation: Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Physiology, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Liebigstrasse 27, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: hallermann@medizin.uni-leipzig.de.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hallermann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005089:Exocytosis / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D057054:Molecular Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D017729:Presynaptic Terminals / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013572:Synaptic Vesicles / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure*