July 10, 2018
What separates the strong from the weak among connections in the brain
… published in eLife , Littleton’s team used innovative imaging techniques in the model organism of the fruitfly … to examine. Glutamate release at individual synapses Calcium, tagged green, indicates synaptic releases at … quantal imaging. “We optimized a genetically encoded calcium sensor to position it near active zones,” Akbergenova …