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Neuroscience

the finding that transmitter is released in discrete packets of fixed size, so synaptic responses are whole multiples of a unit response.

In neuroscience, quantal hypothesis refers to the finding that transmitter is released in discrete packets of fixed size, so synaptic responses are whole multiples of a unit response. This meaning comes from Del Castillo (1954) in The Journal of Physiology.[1]

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References

del Castillo, J., & Katz, B. (1954). Quantal components of the end‐plate potential. The Journal of Physiology, 124(3), 560-573. https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1954.sp005129

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