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Presynaptic plasticity
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Robert S. Zucker
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London : Henry Stewart Talks, 2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 videorecording (53 mins., 48 sec.) : sound, color
- video file
- Animated audio-visual presentation with synchronized narration.
- Title from title frames.
- Contents: What is short-term synaptic plasticity? -- Use of quantal analysis to show that plasticity arises presynaptically -- Synaptic depression and the "Depletion Model" -- Relationship of depletion model parameters to binomial statistical parameters -- Refinements to the depletion hypothesis -- Origin of slow phases of depression -- Role of multiple vesicle pools -- Role of vesicle endocytosis -- Role for calcium in recovery -- Why depression is sometimes absent -- Other forms of depression -- Phases of synaptic enhancement: facilitation, augmentation, and potentiation -- Presynaptic electrical events in synaptic enhancement -- Calcium and the nonlinear summation single site hypothesis -- Kinetic components of calcium removal -- Multiple sites of calcium action -- Problems with identifying molecular mediators -- Candidate molecular mediators -- A comprehensive model of presynaptic plasticity -- Other forms of synaptic enhancement -- Computational roles of short-term synaptic plasticity -- Physiological roles of short-term synaptic plasticity
Subjects
- Calcium -- Physiological effect.
- Neural transmission.
- Neuroplasticity.
- Synapses -- Physiology.
- Calcium -- physiology.
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- Neuronal Plasticity -- physiology.
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- Neurons -- physiology.
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- Synapses -- physiology.
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- Synaptic Transmission.
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