For example, neurons are activated when the concentration of potassium ions changes. It is known that a change in the whole extracellular milieu affects neuron activity and thereby brain activity.

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a new type of pipette that can deliver ions to individual neurons without affecting the sensitive extracellular milieu. Controlling the ...

For example, neurons are activated when the concentration of potassium ions changes. It is known that a change in the whole extracellular milieu affects neuron activity and thereby brain activity.

Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire ...

Researchers are developing promising suppression systems for painful conditions—even an app on your phone that turns the pain ...

Heart muscle cells do something similar, issuing electrical “heave-ho” signals that make the organ beat. Skin and other epithelial cells, however, were thought to be silent; they form barrier tissues ...

Recent work has revealed some of the many crucial functions of astrocytes, brain cells that were once thought to play ...

Neurons, like all cells, maintain different concentrations of certain ions (charged atoms) across their cell membranes. Imagine the case of a boat with a small leak below the water line. In order to ...

Researchers have discovered that the glycoprotein reelin is a marker for cocaine-activated neurons in the nucleus accumbens.

In children with autism, neurons were found to be differently dense in some areas of the brain, ... (ION) and had previously worked at Time & Leisure and South West Londoner, ...

For example, neurons are activated when the concentration of potassium ions changes. Delicate biochemical balance: It is known that a change in the whole extracellular milieu affects neuron activity ...