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ReviewNature neuroscience2015

Molecular mechanisms governing Ca(2+) regulation of evoked and spontaneous release.

Ralf Schneggenburger, Christian Rosenmund

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Review in Nature neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mitochondrial CaNature metabolism · 2026
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  3. Action potential-independent spontaneous microdomain CaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Frequency of Spontaneous Neurotransmission at Individual Boutons Corresponds to the Size of the Readily Releasable Pool of Vesicles.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  10. CaThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  11. L-type CaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  16. Spontaneously Recycling Synaptic Vesicles Constitute Readily Releasable Vesicles in Intact Neuromuscular Synapses.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  18. RIM-Binding Protein 2 Organizes CaThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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  19. Transmission at rod and cone ribbon synapses in the retina.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2021
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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ralf SchneggenburgerLaboratory of Synaptic Mechanisms, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Science, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Christian RosenmundNeuroCure Excellence Cluster, Charité Crossover, Charité, Berlin, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relationship between transmitter release evoked by action potentials and spontaneous release has fascinated neuroscientists for half a century, and separate biological roles for spontaneous release are emerging. Nevertheless, separate functions for spontaneous and Ca(2+)-evoked release do not necessarily indicate different origins of these two manifestations of vesicular fusion. Here we review how Ca(2+) regulates evoked and spontaneous release, emphasizing that Ca(2+) can briefly increase vesicle fusion rates one-millionfold above spontaneous rates. This high dynamic range suggests that docked and readily releasable pool (RRP) vesicles might be protected against spontaneous release while also being immediately available for ultrafast Ca(2+)-evoked release. Molecular mechanisms for such release clamping of highly fusogenic RRP vesicles are increasingly investigated. Thus, we view spontaneous release as a consequence of the highly release-competent state of a standing pool of RRP vesicles, which is molecularly fine-tuned to control spontaneous release.

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AnimalsCalciumNeurosecretionSynaptic TransmissionSynaptic VesiclesCalcium

Identifiers

PMID26108721

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