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Ribbon synapses
Why are these synapses special? Because the electrical signals they transmit are not the same as those in other parts of the brain. Conventional synapses convey information arriving as a ‘pulse code’; action potentials lasting a few milliseconds trigger a transient burst of vesicle fusion and the amplitude of the action potential is fixed. But ribbon synapses transmit ‘analogue signals’, such a...
متن کاملStructure and function of ribbon synapses.
Sensory neurons with short conduction distances can use nonregenerative, graded potentials to modulate transmitter release continuously. This mechanism can transmit information at much higher rates than spiking. Graded signaling requires a synapse to sustain high rates of exocytosis for relatively long periods, and this capacity is the special virtue of ribbon synapses. Vesicles tethered to the...
متن کاملModes of vesicle retrieval at ribbon synapses, calyx-type synapses, and small central synapses.
Introduction Endocytosis is essential for the maintenance of synaptic transmission because it recycles and thus prevents complete depletion of synaptic vesicles in the nerve terminal. The goal of understanding synaptic vesicle recycling mechanisms was launched in earnest in 1973 when John Heuser and Tom Reese published their landmark electron microscope images of synaptic terminals of the frog ...
متن کاملThe synaptic ribbon is a site of phosphatidic acid generation in ribbon synapses.
Ribbon synapses continuously transmit graded membrane potential changes into changes of synaptic vesicle exocytosis and rely on intense synaptic membrane trafficking. The synaptic ribbon is considered central to this process. In the present study we asked whether tonically active ribbon synapses are associated with the generation of certain lipids, specifically the highly active signaling phosp...
متن کاملStabilization of spontaneous neurotransmitter release at ribbon synapses by ribbon-specific subtypes of complexin.
Ribbon synapses of tonically releasing sensory neurons must provide a large pool of releasable vesicles for sustained release, while minimizing spontaneous release in the absence of stimulation. Complexins are presynaptic proteins that may accomplish this dual task at conventional synapses by interacting with the molecular machinery of synaptic vesicle fusion at the active zone to retard sponta...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(03)00566-9