By influencing calcium homeostasis, local protein synthesis and the endoplasmic reticulum, a small protein called Rab10 emerges as a crucial cytoplasmic regulator of neuropeptide secretion.

Neuron Function Synapses Neural synapses are junctions between neurons that permit neural communication. Synapses come in two different forms: chemical and electrical ... which involve rapid changes ...

Figure 2: Going inside the spines and exploring synaptic proteins that support the function of individual synapses. Thus, the truth may be a mixture of these two possibilities, to say the least ...

The team led by Associate Professor Mario Lanza from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of ...

New structural markers of memory storage uncovered by Scripps Research may pave the way for new treatments for memory loss.

In the human brain, there are more than 100 trillion synapses between neurons. Chemical messengers are launched across these synapses ... sending transmissions at two strengths, while two bits ...

A new Drosophila collection of Parkinsonism models reveals early synaptic cholinergic projection neuron dysfunction, linking synaptic failure to later dopaminergic decline, highlighting a role for ...

Newly published research from Colorado State University answers fundamental questions about cellular connectivity in the brain that could be useful in the development of treatments for neurological ...

2 A single neuron can receive messages through several thousand independent synapses spread across the dendritic arbor ... In a dish, Martin cultured a single sensory neuron with a bifurcated axon ...

Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent continuous stimulation of postsynaptic neurons. There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated that a single, standard silicon transistor, the ...