Bert Sakmann

Nobel Prize lecture

Elementary Steps in Synaptic Transmission Revealed by Currents through Single Ion Channels

Bert Sakmann held his Nobel Lecture on 9 December 1991, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Sten Grillner of the Karolinska Institutet.

Elementary Steps in Synaptic Transmission Revealed by Currents through Single Ion Channels

Bert Sakmann held his Nobel Lecture on 9 December 1991, at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Sten Grillner of the Karolinska Institutet.

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1991-1995, Editor Nils Ringertz, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997

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