B. RENSHAW 1 has shown that part of impulses from the motoneurones is not directed to the muscles; it spreads by way of a branch of the motoneurone axon through an inhibitory interneurone and then ...

L’evoluzione verso la pluricellularità ha portato a due vantaggi: un corpo più grande (maggiore quantità di cibo consumato, e maggiore durata della vita) e la suddivisione del lavoro tra molte cellule ...

The role of myelination for axonal conduction is well-established in projection neurons but little is known about its significance in GABAergic interneurons. Myelination is discontinuous along ...

Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI 9) and JARA-Fundamentals of Future Information Technologies, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany ...

Encefaline. Sono le prime ad essere state dimostrate come oppioidi endogeni; sono molto efficaci ma meno potenti delle endorfine e sono presenti per la maggior parte nel midollo spinale. Dinorfine.

Here we provide evidence that the fundamental basis of nervous communication is derived from a pressure pulse/soliton capable of computation with sufficient temporal precision to overcome any ...

Synapse formation and regulation require signaling interactions between pre- and postsynaptic proteins, notably cell adhesion molecules (CAMs). It has been proposed that the functions of neuroligins ...

We thank V. S. Sohal and Z. A. Knight for providing the mice, M. Scanziani and K. Bender for manuscript comments, Q. A. Nguyen for performing the collybistin real-time PCR experiment in Fig. S1, M.

Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, University College London, London, United Kingdom Studying neocortex and hippocampus in parallel, we are struck by the similarities. All three to four ...

Dynamic activity of glia has repeatedly been demonstrated, but if such activity is independent from neuronal activity, glia would not have any role in the information processing in the brain or in the ...

Rats twitch their whiskers about 10 times faster than anyone realised, allowing them to 'see' extraordinary detail in the dark, US researchers show. This might help explain how the rodents find their ...