Sentences with phrase «how synaptic vesicles»
These changes gave me the pleasure of always learning something new about how synaptic vesicles and synapses work, although these changes unfortunately have not improved my looks.
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I ache to see your action potential in action To be blinded by the searing speed of your electric signal As it sparks from node to node To behold the violent beauty of vesicles fusing with your presynaptic membrane — Pouring their contents into your synaptic cleft How I wish to be your postsynaptic cell So that I may be flooded by your molecules
The next major advance which moved this analysis from a cell physiological to a molecular level was accomplished by Scheller and Südhof who made overlapping contributions that characterized the proteins that controlled the two key steps of transmitter release: 1) They showed the mechanism by which the vesicle is mobilized to the release sites of the presynaptic terminal, where the synaptic vesicle first fuses with the membrane of the sending neuron and then leaves the cell, and 2) they also discovered how Ca2 + drives the vesicle to release its contents.