Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

PLACING nerve membrane in the feed-back arm of an operational amplifier allows one to see what current is needed to make the membrane follow a change in voltage across it. Such a measure, termed ...

THIS communication reports the observation that the membrane of bullfrog sympathetic ganglion cells is capable of producing action potentials (calcium spikes) in an isotonic solution of calcium ...

New discoveries on a nanoscale "In patients with nerve pain, part of the pathological picture is a defect in a protein domain we call BAR. We have studied how BAR binds to small membrane vesicles ...

HOUSTON - (Oct. 9, 2017) - The ability to track the movements of single molecules has revealed how proteins on the surface of nerve cells control gates that turn chemical signals into electrical ...

New nano research gives important insights in nerve cell communication that will help the fight against nerve pain following amputation and diabetes. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen ...

When the cell body of a nerve receives enough signals to trigger it to fire, a portion of the axon nearest the cell body depolarizes — the membrane potential quickly rises and then falls (in ...

These signal molecules then reach the receiving cell and influence its activation state. The transmitter discharge process is highly complex and strongly regulated. Its protagonists are synaptic ...

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

The membrane that surrounds a nerve cell is normally electrically polarized, but a nerve impulse triggers a Mexican wave of depolarization to travel along the nerve cell.

Lots of copies of this protein are found in the cell membrane of nerve cells. The proteins pump sodium out of the cells and potassium into the cells. This helps nerve cells to transmit nerve impulses.

A $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will continue a lab-computer collaboration that accurately simulated communications between nerve cells and muscle cells. The project has ...