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Quantal size and variation determined by vesicle size in normal and mutant Drosophila glutamatergic synapses.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 1 Dec 2002

Karunanithi Shanker, Marin Leo, Wong Kar, Atwood Harold L

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Quantal size and variation at chemical synapses could be determined presynaptically by the amount of neurotransmitter released from synaptic vesicles or postsynaptically by the number of receptors available for activation. We investigated these possibilities at Drosophila glutamatergic neuromuscular synapses formed by two separate motor neurons innervating the same muscle cell. At wild-type synapses of the two...

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