Publication Date:
2014-05-07
Description:
Mossy fiber termini in the hippocampus accumulate Zn2+, which is released with glutamate from synaptic vesicles upon neural excitation. Understanding the spatiotemporal regulation of mobile Zn2+ at the synaptic level is challenging owing to the difficulty of visualizing Zn2+ at individual synapses. Here we describe the use of zinc-responsive fluorescent...
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General