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The Predominance of Electric Transport in Synaptic Transmission

Hamid Reza Noori¹

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1. University of Heidelberg, Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing

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Received 19 June 2009 10:04 UTC; Posted 22 June 2009

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Neuroscience

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• dopamine
• synaptic transmission
• neurotransmitters
• computational modeling

Abstract:

The quantitative description of the motion of neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft appears to be one of the most difficult problems in the modeling of synapses. Here we show in contradiction to the common view, that this process is merely governed by electric transport than diffusion forces.

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Noori, Hamid Reza. The Predominance of Electric Transport in Synaptic Transmission. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.2304.2> (2009)

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