It seems likely that multiple signaling pathways, some involving kinases, function cooperatively to define precise sites of synapse formation between axons and dendrites, and to determine ...

Most neurons receive thousands of synaptic inputs onto widely spread dendrites. Because of dendritic filtering, distant synapses should have less efficacy than proximal ones. To investigate this ...

Researchers have identified a unique mitochondrial process in CA2 neurons that supports learning, memory, and social ...

Neurons vary in their abilities to penetrate these barriers. The researchers assigned probabilities predicting whether axons and dendrites would form synapses when they met and, using their model, ...

Researchers have identified the mitochondrial calcium uniporter as a critical protein in the strengthening of synaptic ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

Multipolar neurons have a single axon and multiple dendrites. They are the most common neuron found in mammalian bodies. Neuron Function Synapses Neural synapses are junctions between neurons that ...

Spiny protrusions along the dendrites form the synapses that connect pyramidal neurons to other cells. Yaeger's experiments ...

The dye helps visualize the release of calcium from neurons, post-synapse, at a very fine scale -- the level of the individual dendrite spine. The authors show that inhibitory synapses not ...

Each dendrite on a neuron is covered with tiny bulbous appendages, called dendritic spines, and at the end of each dendritic spine is the synapse—a tiny space where the two cells meet ...