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Physiological Reviews, Vol. 79, No. 3, July 1999, pp. 1019-1088
Copyright ©1999 by the American Physiological Society

Ion Channels in Presynaptic Nerve Terminals and Control of Transmitter Release

Alon Meir, Simona Ginsburg, Alexander Butkevich, Sylvia G. Kachalsky, Igor Kaiserman, Ronit Ahdut, Serdar Demirgoren, and Rami Rahamimoff

Department of Physiology and the Bernard Katz Minerva Centre for Cell Biophysics, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Meir, Alon, Simona Ginsburg, Alexander Butkevich, Sylvia G. Kachalsky, Igor Kaiserman, Ronit Ahdut, Serdar Demirgoren, and Rami Rahamimoff. Ion Channels in Presynaptic Nerve Terminals and Control of Transmitter Release. Physiol. Rev. 79: 1019-1088, 1999.The primary function of the presynaptic nerve terminal is to release transmitter quanta and thus activate the postsynaptic target cell. In almost every step leading to the release of transmitter quanta, there is a substantial involvement of ion channels. In this review, the multitude of ion channels in the presynaptic terminal are surveyed. There are at least 12 different major categories of ion channels representing several tens of different ion channel types; the number of different ion channel molecules at presynaptic nerve terminals is many hundreds. We describe the different ion channel molecules at the surface membrane and inside the nerve terminal in the context of their possible role in the process of transmitter release. Frequently, a number of different ion channel molecules, with the same basic function, are present at the same nerve terminal. This is especially evident in the cases of calcium channels and potassium channels. This abundance of ion channels allows for a physiological and pharmacological fine tuning of the process of transmitter release and thus of synaptic transmission.




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