How does one nerve cell transmit the nerve impulse to another cell? Electron microscopy and other methods show that it does so by means of special extensions that deliver a squirt of transmitter ...

Neurons or nerve cells are the fundamental components of ... one neuron to another requires the establishment of a neuronal synapse: either chemical (neurotransmitters) or electrical (protein ...

also known as nerve impulses, which involve rapid changes in voltage across their membrane. When a neuron’s dendrite or cell body receives enough inputs from other neurons via chemical or electrical ...

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 ...

At excitatory synapses in the cerebral cortex, the most numerous synapses in our brain, the presynaptic nerve ending contains ... an electrical impulse from the cell soma, within one to a few ...

They placed central and peripheral nerve cells taken from rats together in ... these neurons make a connection called a synapse that transmits cold sensory information from the peripheral to ...

In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a new study.

However, it was previously not understood how EPO regulates excitatory synapses involving interneurons. Interneurons are nerve cells of the central nervous system that interconnect other nerve cells.

Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how skin and nerve cells interact. “The skin is basically the window to the outside,” said Kathryn Albers, a neuroscientist at the University of ...

T cells, move over. B cells are now reported, in a recent paper in Nature, to have their own immunological synapses with APCs. Only this time the antigen is whole and B cells don't keep it to ...

Recreational drugs can affect neurotransmitters in the reward pathway within the brain. They can act as either agonists or antagonists. Recreational drugs can also stimulate the release of ...