"This is possibly a new form of communication between nerve cells in the brain," says chemist ... Straub discovered that 2-AG is transported in vesicles. She tested this by isolating and analyzing ...

Jennifer Morgan, senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, studies how the synapse malfunctions in ...

Using this cell-permeable small molecule ... to the early phase of coated-vesicle formation. Vesicle formation and trafficking, especially at nerve terminals, as well as other membrane-based ...

Our brain requires a constant supply of energy. A disrupted energy supply, as, for instance, caused by a stroke, can have ...

Nothing in the known universe (with the exception of the universe itself) is more complex; the brain contains about 100 billion nerve ... vesicles. The vesicles, seen here in a fibroblast cell ...

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.

which promotes endocytosis so the vesicle can be absorbed into the recipient cell. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news coverage of this ...

A new study in the peer-reviewed journal Stem Cells and Development highlights the potential of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a therapeutic strategy for high-dose ...