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News Physiol Sci 9: 59-64, 1994;
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News in Physiological Sciences, Vol 9, 59-64, Copyright © 1994 by International Union of Physiological Sciences

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Vesicular or Quantal and Subquantal Transmitter Release

J Vautrin

When quantal synaptic transmission was discovered four decades ago, elementary transmitter releases initially were assigned to individual activity of presynaptic terminal units. Soon after an alternative hypothesis was proposed: elementary transmitter packets are preformed in specialized vesicles and released by exocytosis. Although the latter representation largely prevails, data are not conclusive.




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