| Range |
≤50 Release sites
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| Organism |
Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster |
| Reference |
Peled ES, Isacoff EY. Optical quantal analysis of synaptic transmission in wild-type and rab3-mutant Drosophila motor axons. Nat Neurosci. 2011 Apr14(4):519-26. doi: 10.1038/nn.2767. p.519 right column 2nd paragraphPubMed ID21378971
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| Primary Source |
Atwood, H.L., Govind, C.K. & Wu, C.F. Differential ultrastructure of synaptic terminals on ventral longitudinal abdominal muscles in Drosophila larvae. J. Neurobiol. 24 , 1008–1024 (1993).PubMed ID8409966
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| Comments |
"In this model
glutamatergic system, which resembles central synapses in vertebrates
at the molecular level (15), a few axon branches form tens to hundreds
of boutons (16)
, with each bouton containing up to 50 transmitter
release sites (primary source), providing a large collection of sites that together mediate transmission between the axon and its one muscle fiber target
cell." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
108867 |