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Nature Neuroscience  8, 1283 - 1284 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nn1005-1283

Synchronous versus asynchronous transmitter release: a tale of two types of inhibitory neurons

Shaul Hestrin & Mario Galarreta

Shaul Hestrin and Mario Galarreta are at the Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive R314, Palo Alto, California 94035-5342, USA. shaul.hestrin@stanford.edu

Inhibitory cortical neurons are thought to generate temporally precise signals important for information processing, but a new study shows that CCK-expressing interneurons continue to release GABA for several hundred milliseconds after bursts of action potentials.

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