Fluorescence imaging study of extracellular zinc at the hippocampal mossy fiber synapse
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Fluorescence imaging study of extracellular zinc at the hippocampal mossy fiber synapse.
Although synaptically released, vesicular Zn(2+) has been proposed to play a neuromodulatory or neuronal signaling role at the mossy fiber-CA3 synapse, Zn(2+) release remains controversial, especially when detected using fluorescent imaging. In the present study, we investigated synaptically released Zn(2+) at the mossy fiber (MF) synapse in rat hippocampal slices using three chemically distinc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuroscience Letters
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0304-3940
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.04.047