Synapses are subcellular microcompartments that are essential for a digital form of transneuronal communication, mediated by chemical mediators termed neurotransmitters. At excitatory synapses in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Also, because the dyes bind to the vesicle membrane—unlike neurotransmitters ... it for 30 minutes and then perfusing while imaging synapses during stimulation, it worked.

They allow the nervous system to connect to and control other systems of the body. At a chemical synapse, one neuron releases neurotransmitter molecules into a small space (the synaptic cleft) that is ...

Here, an axon from one neuron links to a dendrite of another. At these synapses, neurotransmitters carry signals across the gap, instructing the receiving neuron to pass on an electrical signal to ...

Researchers are using a groundbreaking technique to visualize a crucial molecule involved in neurotransmission in patients ...

Synapses are the connection points where ... at the IN has extensively investigated glutamate receptors, which are ...

Even though psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are quite ...

SNRIs act on serotonin transporters (SERTs) and norepinephrine transporters (NETs), which are glycoproteins present in synapses. Their function is to take extra neurotransmitters from these ...

neurotransmission may be involved in schizophrenia that is an intractable brain disease with a high prevalence, the exact mechanisms of the disturbance remains unclear. In the present research project ...