Studies of Hypothalamic Magnocellular Neurons Have Used Radioimmunoassay to Show

question 42

Multiple Choice

Studies of hypothalamic magnocellular neurons have used radioimmunoassay to show that

• A) vesicles may travel long distances from release sites to receptor sites.
• B) magnocellular neurons are able to synthesize and release more than one peptide at once.
• C) more vesicles are released at cell bodies than at dendrites.
• D) trains of action potentials are needed to produce exocytosis.
• E) extrasynaptic transmission uses dense-core, rather than clear, vesicles.

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