Exhaustion of calcium does not terminate evoked neurotransmitter release

Hanna Parnas*, Lee A. Segel

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Abstract

Theories are considered which assume that termination of evoked release is caused by the exhaustion of intracellular Ca. It is shown that such theories predict, contrary to experiment, that total release is an unsaturated function of intracellular Ca whose duration depends strongly on extracellular Ca. These and other findings lead to the conclusion that termination must be due to the fast change of another parameter (not intracellular Ca).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)345-365
Number of pages21
JournalJournal of Theoretical Biology
Volume107
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Apr 1984

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