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Pure spillover transmission between neurons

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Szapiro and Barbour describe a new mode of neuron-to-neuron communication mediated solely by spillover of neurotransmitter that diffuses out of the synaptic cleft to bind more distant receptors on postsynaptic neurons.

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Figure 1: Pure spillover transmission between climbing fibers and molecular layer interneurons in the cerebellum.

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