This action results in the opening of slow voltage-dependent calcium (Ca2+) channels, allowing for a subsequent influx of Ca2+. In turn, it induces the exocytosis of synaptic vesicles containing ...
Scientists use this protein as an indicator because it hangs out on the synaptic vesicles that store your neurotransmitters; generally, the more SV2A in your brain, the more synapses they can assume ...
To do this, the synaptic vesicle must dock at the membrane of the presynaptic neuron and dump its content into the synapse, where it moves to particular receptors on the postsynaptic neuron.
Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, Goethe-University, ...
They also broadened our understanding of SV function and of how the vesicles are recycled. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS.) “Synaptic ...