The finding that temperature influences how glutamate binds to neuronal receptor proteins to initiate signal transduction reveals the mechanics of one of the brain’s most important processes.

Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center have gained greater clarity in the brain regions and neurons that control ...

A highly specialized microscope, called cryoEM, is helping scientists see how glutamate, a major neuron-to-neuron signaling ...

Researchers identified how a brain circuit involving dopamine and GLP-1 receptor impact palatability and hedonic eating.

CD163 might not be the most exciting name in the world, but behind it lies one of the body's most important defense receptors ...

Every year, heart disease claims the lives of more Americans than any other health condition, according to the Centers for ...

Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center have gained greater clarity in the brain regions and neurons that ...

Olfaction in mammals is mediated by a population of olfactory sensory neurons, each of which expresses just one of ~1000 olfactory receptor proteins that are encoded in the genome. Olfactory activity ...

A cholesterol receptor protein called LDLR appears to be a key driver of neurotoxicity in sporadic ALS, per new research ...

Researchers have shown that as flies encounter an odor signal, the specific pattern of interference between olfactory receptors helps flies quickly compute the “gist” of the odor’s meaning.

These are expressed by neurons in the animals’ antennae and maxillary palps (small appendages near their mouths). Early research had suggested that each neuron expresses just one type of receptor, and ...