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Priming plasticity

Nature volume 415, pages 277–278 (2002)Cite this article

Nerve cells communicate by using chemical messengers, which are released from neurons after a 'priming' step. It seems that priming may be key to controlling the strength of chemical transmission.

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Figure 1: Signalling at a chemical synapse.

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