Re: [sl4] The Jaguar Supercomputer.

From: Stathis Papaioannou (stathisp@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 22 2009 - 23:53:25 MST


2009/11/23 Luke <wlgriffiths@gmail.com>:

> Finally, there are over 100 neurotransmitters, any combination of which can
> act at a particular synapse.

For many years it was thought that a single neuron released only one
neurotransmitter. With the discovery of cotransmission that is now
known not to be true, but even so no more than a couple of
neurotransmitters are usually involved, and their release does not
always seem to be differentially variable.

-- 
Stathis Papaioannou


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