Fig. 2.
Phasic (A) versus tonic (B) zinc release. Zinc ions are shown as red spheres. In the tonic mode zinc ions are bound to membrane associated macromolecules (not shown) in synaptic vesicles and on the pre- and postsynaptic membrane.
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