Researchers from the lab led by Prof. Joris De Wit (VIB-KU Leuven) have discovered an important clue to how connections ...

Presynaptic NMDA receptors can shape timing-dependent long-term depression in a way that departs from their classic postsynaptic role.

When plants are subjected to Zn deficiency, the transcriptional levels of Zn-absorbing transporters (such as ZIP4, ZIP9, and ZIP12) are significantly upregulated due to the plant's stress response ...

mediated by non-ionotropic NMDA receptor signaling, and (3) is reliant on JNK2/Syntaxin-1a (STX1a) interaction (but not RIM1αβ) in the presynaptic neuron. The study elegantly and pointedly addresses a ...

Cerebral blood delivery depends on mechanisms such as electrical signaling, which propagates through capillary networks to upstream arterioles to deliver blood, and calcium signaling, which fine ...

Our study found that BDNF-TrB signaling modulates evoked neurotransmission via changes in presynaptic calcium influx without affecting ... it is limited to examining the global activity of a neuron ...

A stash of neurotransmitter-packed vesicles hunkers close to the presynaptic membrane so the vesicles can ... and scientists long assumed these proteins were essential to neuron signaling. For years, ...

but before now there hasn't been much research into how calcium signaling might work inside the actual neuron cell body. As the researchers explain, these neuron clusters are "highly conserved", which ...

A good example of this is provided by locusts. They can avoid collisions in a dense swarm through the activity of a motion-based visual neuron called the Lobula giant movement detector (LGMD). The ...