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ReviewNeurochemical research2003

Low- and high-affinity reactions in rapid neurotransmission.

Yves Dunant, Alain Bloc

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Review in Neurochemical research, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Vesicular calcium transport shapes rapid acetylcholine secretion.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2006
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Yves DunantDepartment de Pharmacologic, Université de Genève, Centre Medical Universitaire, CH-1211 Genève-4, Switzerland. Yves.Dunant@medecine.unige.ch
Alain Bloc

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Until 1950-1960, most physiologists were reluctant to accept chemical neurotransmission. They believed that chemical reactions were much too slow to account for the speed of synaptic processes. The first breakthrough was to discover the impressive velocity of acetylcholinesterase. Then, nicotinic receptors provided an example of complex ultrarapid reactions: fast activation at a low ligand affinity, then desensitization if the ligand is not rapidly removed. Here, we describe synaptic transmission as a chain of low-affinity rapid reactions, assisted by many slower regulatory processes. For starting quantal acetylcholine release, mediatophores are activated by high Ca2+ concentrations, but they desensitize at a higher affinity if Ca2+ remains present. Several mechanisms concur to the rapid removal of Ca2+ from the submembrane microdomains. Among them, the Ca2+/H+ antiport is a typical low-affinity, high-speed process that certainly contributes to the rapidity of neurotransmission.

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Cation Transport ProteinsAcetylcholineAnimalsAntiportersBinding, CompetitiveBuffersCalciumCalcium-Binding ProteinsNerve EndingsOsmolar ConcentrationSynaptic TransmissionTime FactorsAcetylcholineAntiportersBuffersCalciumCalcium-Binding Proteinscalcium-hydrogen antiportersCation Transport Proteins

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