Ethanol Selectively Inhibits Enhanced Vesicular Release at Excitatory Synapses: Real‐Time Visualization in Intact Hippocampal Slices

Abstract

These findings indicate that the FM1-43/S-Rhd method is a stable and powerful approach for direct real-time measurement of vesicular release kinetics in intact brain slice preparations and that ethanol inhibits vesicular release induced by depolarization via inhibition of N/P/Q-VGCCs.