USC researchers developed genetically engineered tools that can selectively and reversibly dismantle excitatory or inhibitory synapses. This method allows scientists to break and restore specific ...

These chemical messengers such as dopamine ... allowing ion flow that excites or inhibits the postsynaptic neuron. Excitatory synapses promote action potentials by depolarizing the membrane ...

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

Researchers at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have identified a remarkably small but critical piece of genetic code ...

Research indicates that doing nothing will reduce blood flow and oxygen levels to the brain, negatively impacting cognitive ...

Second, the synapses that mediate these connections can be functionally very different, even when they belong to the same axon and contact the same postsynaptic target. What is the basis for this ...

Synaptic transmission is the biological process by which a neuron communicates with a target cell across a synapse. Chemical synaptic transmission involves the release of a neurotransmitter from ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

In Brazil, researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and collaborators from the University of São Paulo (USP) have discovered ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea of mitochondria being little batteries with a built-in charger, about as ...

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