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ReviewMolecular brain2009

Action potential evoked transmitter release in central synapses: insights from the developing calyx of Held.

Lu-Yang Wang, Michael J Fedchyshyn, Yi-Mei Yang

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Review in Molecular brain, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Presynaptic CabioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  2. Input-Specific Organization of Intrinsic Excitability Expands Coding Capacity of Fast-Spiking Auditory Neurons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  11. Variations in CaThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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  12. Synaptotagmin CaFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2018
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  16. Bilirubin augments CaScientific reports · 2017
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  19. Ca2+ channel to synaptic vesicle distance accounts for the readily releasable pool kinetics at a functionally mature auditory synapse.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lu-Yang WangProgram for Neurosciences and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada. luyang.wang@utoronto.ca
Michael J Fedchyshyn
Yi-Mei Yang
Hospital for Sick Children · CASickKids Foundation · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP-143867Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP-14692
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemical synapses are the fundamental units that mediate communication between neurons in the mammalian brain. In contrast to the enormous progress made in mapping out postsynaptic contributions of receptors, scaffolding structures and receptor trafficking to synaptic transmission and plasticity, the small size of nerve terminals has largely precluded direct analyses of presynaptic modulation of excitability and transmitter release in central synapses. Recent studies performed in accessible synapses such as the calyx of Held, a giant axosomatic synapse in the sound localization circuit of the auditory brainstem, have provided tremendous insights into how central synapses regulate the dynamic gain range of synaptic transmission. This review will highlight experimental evidence that resolves several long-standing issues with respect to intricate interplays between the waveform of action potentials, Ca2+ currents and transmitter release and further conceptualize their relationships in a physiological context with theoretical models of the spatial organization of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels and synaptic vesicles at release sites.

Indexed as

Action PotentialsAnimalsCalciumHumansModels, BiologicalNeuronal PlasticityNeurotransmitter AgentsSynapsesCalciumNeurotransmitter Agents

Identifiers

PMID19939269
PMCPMC2794261
OpenAlexW2101766473

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