«A docking site per
calcium channel cluster: Researchers find link between morphology and function of synapses.»
Not exact matches
Prenucleation - stage
calcium carbonate
clusters provide an early precursor species of different ACC phases giving rise to an alternative crystallization - reaction
channel.
A study co-led by Ryuichi Shigemoto, Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), with Alain Marty, Professor at Université Paris Descartes, uncovers that a single docking site may use a single
cluster of
calcium channels and that both the number of docking sites and the number of
calcium clusters change in parallel with brain age.
This led the researchers to a major conclusion, as Shigemoto explains: «Based on our results, we suggest that for each docking site, there is a corresponding
cluster of voltage-gated
calcium channels.
They found that the number of functional docking sites matches the number of
clusters of voltage-gated
calcium channels in the presynaptic terminal.