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The Cellular Basis of Synaptic Transmission: An Overview

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Cellular and Molecular Basis of Synaptic Transmission

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The beginning of cell biology and the role of instrumentation in its development The recent growth of interest of biologists of all complexions in the techniques of molecular genetics has tended to thrust into the background an earlier revolution in our understanding of cellular function which has by no means yet run its full course and which led to the emergence of a new subject, that of cell biology. One of the two instruments of that revolution was the electron microscope: or, rather, the development of reliable, user-friendly commercial electron microscopes and ancillary equipment such as knife-makers and ultratomes as well as improvements in embedding plastics.

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  1. Arbeitsgruppe Neurochemie, Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany

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Whittaker, V.P. (1988). The Cellular Basis of Synaptic Transmission: An Overview. In: Zimmermann, H. (eds) Cellular and Molecular Basis of Synaptic Transmission. NATO ASI Series, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73172-3_1

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