Transmission, Development, and Plasticity of Synapses

Chemical synapses are sites of contact and information transfer between a neuron and its partner cell. Each synapse is a specialized junction, where the presynaptic cell assembles machinery for the release of neurotransmitter, and the postsynaptic cell assembles components to receive and integrate t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Littleton, J. Troy, Harris, Kathryn P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Genetics Society of America (GSA) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106628
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5576-2887