title: The Variable Strength of Electrical Synapses.
abstract: In contrast to chemical synapses, less is known regarding the determinants of the strength of electrical synapses. New evidence from Szoboszlay et al. (2016) shows that the number of gap junctions is the dominant factor underlying the strength of electrical coupling between cerebellar interneurons.
authors.affiliation: Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. Electronic address: alberto.pereda@einstein.yu.edu.
authors.forename: Alberto E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Pereda
mesh_terms: D054351:Electrical Synapses; D017629:Gap Junctions; D006801:Humans; D007395:Interneurons; D013569:Synapses