How To Use quantal In A Sentence
- Although these results do not definitively pinpoint the source of the steps, they confirm the earlier hypothesis that shortening is quantal.
- In the crayfish leg extensor preparation, the number of quanta released per action potential (quantal content) was approximately 15, at low frequencies of stimulation.
- In this case, the quantal amplitude of postsynaptic response strongly depends on the number of accessible postsynaptic receptors in the vicinity of the release sites.
- The fact that similar step sizes are found in independent experimental approaches using different methodologies implies that the quantal stepping mechanism is a central feature of the contractile process.
- The number of receptors opened following quantal release may vary directly with the total number of receptors at the synapse, but other, more complex, interactions may occur.
- S, Lipp P, Berridge MJ, Bootman MD (1999) Regulation of ryanodine receptor opening by lumenal Ca (2+) underlies quantal Ca (2+) release in PC12 cells. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Quantal analysis of excitatory synapses in the hippocampus has proved difficult and has led to contradictory conclusions when applied to long-term potentiation.
- The extrasynaptic receptors that are exposed to a much lower concentration of agonist and are not saturated may substantially enhance the quantal synaptic response.
- If the random number was smaller, a release event took place, the site was set to the empty state, and the size of the quantal response was determined as described below.
- Furthermore, it allows one to calculate the apparent quantal size for each response in a sequence of stimuli.
