Total pool of synaptic vesicles in retinal bipolar nerve terminal

Range ~700,000 (~500,000 or 900,000 quanta in a small and a large nerve terminal, respectively) vesicles
Organism Goldfish Carassius spp.
Reference Rizzoli SO, Betz WJ. Synaptic vesicle pools. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005 Jan6(1):57-69. P.61 left column top paragraphPubMed ID15611727
Primary Source [71] von Gersdorff, H., Vardi, E., Matthews, G. & Sterling, P. Evidence that vesicles on the synaptic ribbon of retinal bipolar neurons can be rapidly released. Neuron 16, 1221–1227 (1996).PubMed ID8663998
Method Electron microscopy
Comments P.61 left column top paragraph: "Goldfish retinal bipolar nerve terminals. Estimates from electron microscopy place the total pool of synaptic vesicles in the goldfish retinal bipolar nerve terminal (Fig. 6) at around 700,000 quanta (~500,000 or 900,000 quanta in a small and a large nerve terminal, respectively [primary source] see Ref. 72 for a lower estimate), consistent with styryl dye imaging experiments [refs 73, 74]."
Entered by Uri M
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