4 Action potentials Typically, neurons share information by producing electrical events called action potentials, also known as nerve impulses, which involve rapid changes in voltage across their ...

The answer lies in a membrane structure called myelin ... structurally and maintain their long-term neuronal integrity, and neurons regulate glial cell behavior. In this support of neurons ...

Neurons are cells that act as the brain's fundamental building blocks, transmitting information through electrical signals. When a neuron receives a stimulus, changes in membrane voltage (the ...

The laboratory of Ege Kavalali, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, published a paper in Nature ...

Lab mice with glioblastoma lived longer with a new combination treatment than with radiation alone—and some even achieved ...

Each time a terminal receives an electrical impulse from the cell soma ... receptors in the postsynaptic neuron are heavily enriched in specialized membrane structures that are directly apposed ...

In 2004, Hans-Hermann Gerdes’ group from the University of Heidelberg discovered open-ended, membrane-enclosed channels between neuron-like cells, called tunneling nanotubes (TNTs). 2 However the ...

changing the strength of the signal that is passed down the plasma membrane. This process continues from contact site to contact site all along the dendrite to the cell body, where the neuron ...

elegans and mammalian neuronal cultures (Fonte et al, 2011). We propose that a primary mechanism of Abeta toxicity is the formation of membrane-damaging oligomers, which is blocked by the G37L ...

Neurobiologists identify key protein Esyt linking calcium signaling to neurodegenerative diseases in cell membrane contact ...

changing the strength of the signal that is passed down the plasma membrane. This process continues from contact site to contact site all along the dendrite to the cell body, where the neuron ...