Neuroscience · Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience
A topic within Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.
2 works
José del Castillo & Bernard Katz
Shows the end-plate potential is built from discrete, uniform quanta of neurotransmitter rather than continuously graded release, founding quantal theory of synaptic transmission.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Thomas Südhof
Südhof's synthesis, written around his Nobel Prize, traces the molecular machinery, from SNAREs to synaptotagmin, that makes vesicle fusion fast enough for a synapse to keep pace with an arriving action potential.
link checked 17 Sept 2026