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Nature 401, 123-124 (9 September 1999) | doi:10.1038/43582
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Cell biology: Lipid membranes shape up
Suzie J. Scales1 & Richard H. Scheller1
Nervous transmission depends on the rapid fusion of neurotransmitter-laden vesicles with the presynaptic plasma membrane. The released neurotransmitter diffuses across the gap between two nerve cells (the synapse), while the non-cargo components of the fused vesicle are retrieved from the presynaptic membrane in a process called synaptic-vesicle recycling.
- Suzie J. Scales and Richard H. Scheller are at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5345, USA.
Correspondence to: Suzie J. Scales1 e-mail: Email: sjscales@cmgm.stanford.edu
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