Neuroscientists at Stanford University have grown a tiny, two-centimeter-long ‘sausage’ made of human cells that may hold ...

Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

Na v 1.7 sodium channels are not present in cardiac muscle or CNS neurons, and this fact might be exploited to minimize adverse effects of sodium channel blockers. If these possibilities are ...

positively charged residues in an extracellular domain (S4) are important for channel gating. Sodium channels are important for generating electrical signals in neurons.

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of humans' most prominent nervous pathways for sensing ...

Ask any smoker who has tried to quit and they’ll tell you it isn’t easy. But a recent study offers a surprising glimmer of ...

Scientists used advanced cryo-EM imaging to reveal how glutamate activates brain receptors, paving the way for new ...

Four tiny 3D organs connected themselves in a lab dish, forming a replica of the human pain pathway, in a new study. The discovery allows scientists to better understand chronic pain and how pain ...

Its landing place on neurons is a channel called an AMPA receptor, which interacts with glutamate, and then acts like a pore that takes in charged particles. The ebb and flow of charged particles ...