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Genetic evidence for an equilibrium between docked and undocked vesicles.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 28 Feb 1999
Li J, Schwarz T L
Abstract excerpt
By using the shibire mutation to block endocytosis in a temperature-dependent fashion, we have manipulated the number of synaptic vesicles in a nerve terminal and have observed a remarkable proportionality of the number of quanta released to the size of the total vesicle pool. In the experiments described below we determine that approximately 0.3% of the vesicle pool is released per stimulus. The data suggest...
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