With the strong associations established in epidemiologic studies and a dearth of evidence on the actual mechanisms by which ...

The brain is an information-processing organ, and the brain cells that relay ... signal must cross the gap between neurons (the synapse), where it is translated from an electrical signal to ...

Other astrocytic functions, which are beyond the scope of this Review, include the regulation of cell ... synapses and astrocytes, astrocyte-to-astrocyte transmission through gap junctions ...

In a revised version of the manuscript, it was also applied, with success, to published experimental data on the cerebellar basket cell ... electrical field as it "annihilates". This happens even ...

Tumor microtube is a continuation of the membrane of a glioma cell and extends to another cell separated with gap junctions connexin 43 ... of immature neural cells and may be seen as “electric ...

Neurons generate and propagate electrical pulses called action potentials which ... experimental findings on ephaptic coupling at the well-studied Basket cell - Purkinje cell synapse. It is able to ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers found that the neuronal energy conservation program determines the location and ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

The model calculations in the present study show that proteins are therefore preferably synthesized in the branched, tapering ...

The Dorsetshire Gap, the target of this walk, is a junction of ancient trackways at a natural break in the high ridge between Nordon Hill and Nettlecombe Tout. The same routes still converge at ...

Newly discovered brain cells count each bite before sending the order to cease eating a meal. Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to ...