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Local calcium regulatory compartments in neurons
P B Guthrie1, R W Davenport, S B Kater
1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523.
The Japanese Journal of Physiology
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
We have demonstrated that calcium concentration is under local control in two different systems: hippocampal pyramidal cell dendritic spines, and developing grasshopper pioneer neuron axons. Controllable, photoinduced damage to fura-2 filled processes was used for generating defined, reliable cytoplasmic calcium transients to demonstrate these local calcium regulatory compartments.