Harvard researchers have mapped and cataloged more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a ...

Neuron Function Synapses Neural synapses are junctions ... to action potentials and voltage-gated calcium channels. Once they traverse the gap between neurons (synaptic cleft), neurotransmitters ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and the dendrite of a receiving neuron is a gap called the synapse ... This capacity for change is called synaptic plasticity and it is essential ...

Researchers have identified the mitochondrial calcium uniporter as a critical protein in the strengthening of synaptic ...

Scientists have uncovered a crucial pathway that links brain cell activity to the activation of genes responsible for ...

Pyramidal-neuron dendrites contain voltage-gated channels that can influence synaptic integration. These channels can also support backpropagating action potentials and dendritically initiated spikes.

Advancements could enhance perceptual capabilities in robotics. Artificially engineered biological processes, such as ...

An electrical impulse cannot directly cross the gap so a different mechanism has to be used. Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent ...

A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first to show how proteins called "chaperones" are vital in ensuring that neurons can transmit signals to one another.

Sleep's role to down-scale glutamate, excitatory, frontal cortical synapses is extended to include an up-scaling of metaplastic LTP potential, in recovery from prolonged waking induced saturation of ...

“iAssembloids are a scalable platform bridging the gap between 2D cultures and ... ApoE4 versus ApoE3 astrocytes modulated neuron survival. ApoE4 astrocytes boosted neuronal expression of genes ...