Mechanisms Determining the Time Course of Secretion in Neuroendocrine Cells

Transmitter release from chromaffin cells differs from that in synapses in that it persists for a longer time after Ca2+ entry has stopped. This prolonged secretion is not due to a delay between vesicle fusion and transmitter release, nor to slow detection of released substance: step increases in capacitance due to single vesicle fusion precede the release detected by amperometry by only a few milliseconds. The persistence of secretion after a depolarization is reduced by addition of mobile calcium buffer. This suggests that most of the delay is due to diffusion of Ca2+ between channels and release sites, implying that Ca2+ channels and secretory vesicles are not colocalized in chromaffin cells, in contrast to presynaptic active zones.

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