Membrane for plasmalemmal expansion is generated through the secretory pathway, primarily in the neuron's perikaryon, and then transported as plasmalemmal precursor vesicles to the cell periphery ...

Researchers have devised a way to achieve long-term changes in neuron activity. With their new strategy, they can use light exposure to change the electrical capacitance of the neurons' membranes ...

Like other cell bodies, a neuron’s soma contains a nucleus and specialized organelles. It’s enclosed by a membrane that both protects it and allows it to interact with its immediate surroundings.

neuron, the synaptic cleft separating the transmitting and receiving neurons and the membrane of the receiving (postsynaptic) neuron. The presynaptic nerve endings contain signal molecules known ...

The neurotransmitter diffuses across the synaptic cleft and interacts with receptors on the membrane of the postsynaptic neuron, triggering a response. Chemical synapses are classified depending ...

Before putting in the work to understand what the membrane potential is ... electrical impulses that travel down the length of the neuron responsible for encoding information are physically ...

In LLPS, liquid condensates—or membrane-less organelles—that are ... liquid condensates play within the context of a firing ...

and that nomifensine can alleviate depressive behaviors by reducing medium spiny neuron membrane excitability. Related results were published in Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 9, No. 10 ...

When a neuron receives a stimulus, changes in membrane voltage (the electrical charge across the neuron cell membrane) trigger the neuron to activate, causing rapid changes in membrane voltage to ...

So, we wondered if we could tune neuron excitability by changing membrane capacitance," Liu says. While a postdoc at Stanford University, Liu and his colleagues showed that they could alter ...