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A large pool of releasable vesicles in a cortical glutamatergic synapse
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To probe exocytosis at a cortical glutamatergic synapse, we made capacitance measurements in whole-cell recorded hippocampal mossy fiber terminals. Evaluation of different methods by using a morphology-based equivalent electrical model revealed that quantitative capacitance measurements are possible in this presynaptic structure. Voltage pulses leading to presynaptic Ca2+ inflow evoked large capacitance signals that showed saturation with increasing pulse duration. The mean peak capacitance increase was 100 fF, corresponding to a pool of approximately 1,400 releasable vesicles. Thus hippocampal mossy fiber synapses have a vesicular "maxipool." Large pool size and rapid vesicle recycling may underlie the uniquely large extent of activity-dependent plasticity in this synapse.
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“Capacitance measurements from hippocampal mossy fiber terminals suggest that long depolarizing pulses release approximately 500–1,400 vesicles, corresponding to 17 to 48 vesicles per AZ [33,86].”
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- Authors
- Hallermann, S., Pawlu, C., Jonas, P., & Heckmann, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Freiburg (DE)
- Physiologisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2003-06-18
- Volume
- 100
- Issue
- 15
- Pages
- 8975-8980
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC166423
- OpenAlex
- W2133521893
- Cited by
- 181
- References
- 60
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- FWCI
- 3.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- europepmc.org
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Cellular transport and secretion
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Extracellular vesicles in disease
- Keywords
- exocytosis, glutamatergic synapses, hippocampal mossy fibers, synaptic vesicles, capacitance measurement, presynaptic calcium influx, vesicle recycling, activity-dependent plasticity, equivalent circuit model
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Electrophysiology, Endocytosis, Exocytosis, Models, Neurological, Synaptic Transmission, Rats, Wistar, Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal, Secretory Vesicles, Electric Capacitance, Rats, In Vitro Techniques
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