| | Biophysical Journal: Diffusion barriers limit the effect of mobile calcium buffers on exocytosis of large dense cored ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | It is assumed that the distance between calcium channels and the fusion peptide machinery is much larger, which implies that calcium ions must diffuse over some distance before they can act upon the fusion peptides (Chow et al., 1994, 1996; Seward and Nowycky, 1995, 1996; Seward et al., 1995). |
 | | In the present study we asked what mechanism is responsible for the discrepancy between the large difference in Ca-binding rates of the buffers on the one hand and their similar effects on exocytosis on the other hand. |
 | | Finally, we tested whether the different kinetics of exocytosis predicted by the model with either EGTA or BAPTA are in agreement with experimental measurements using capacitance recording. |
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