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Sensors and synchronicity

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Synaptic communication is triggered by action potentials, but neurons also talk to each other in between action potentials. Specific intracellular-calcium sensors regulate these conversations.

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Figure 1: Two modes of neurotransmitter release.

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  1. Ruth Heidelberger is in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 6431 Fannin Street, Houston, Texas 77025, USA. ruth.heidelberger@uth.tmc.edu,

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Heidelberger, R. Sensors and synchronicity. Nature 450, 623–625 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/450623a

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