By influencing calcium homeostasis, local protein synthesis and the endoplasmic reticulum, a small protein called Rab10 emerges as a crucial cytoplasmic regulator of neuropeptide secretion.

Synapses are subcellular microcompartments that ... and because its target glutamate receptors in the postsynaptic neuron are heavily enriched in specialized membrane structures that are directly ...

2). However, agrin itself is not necessary for the formation of neuron–neuron synapses. This has led to an intensive search for trans-neuronal inducers. Among the candidates are cadherins ...

NUS researchers have demonstrated a single, standard silicon transistor can function like a biological neuron and synapse ...

Synapses are the connection points where neurons establish contact with each other to transmit information. For this ...

A new frontier in neuromorphic computing by demonstrating that a single silicon transistor can behave like a neuron and ...

There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again. For example, noradrenaline.

The team led by Associate Professor Mario Lanza from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of ...

Making the transistor operate as a neuron or synapse is as simple as selecting the appropriate resistance for the bulk terminal. The physical phenomenon of "impact ionisation" had traditionally ...