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Nature 449, 124-125 (13 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449124b; Published online 12 September 2007

Long-held theory is in danger of losing its nerve

Declan Butler

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Doubts raised over influential work on neurotransmitter release.

A suite of seminal neuroscience papers by Henri Korn of the Pasteur Institute in Paris allegedly contains a string of anomalies in data interpretation, according to a reanalysis of the papers, published this week in the Journal of Neurophysiology1. But Korn and his co-authors contest this and are critical of the reanalysis, which appears in the same journal as many of Korn's original papers.