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Special protein helps maintain an efficient brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The instruction manual for maintaining an efficient brain may soon include a section on synaptotagmin-IV (Syt-IV), a protein known to influence learning and memory, thanks to a study by UW-Madison researchers.
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A new 'bent' on fusion
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Success in soccer sometimes comes with "bending it like Beckham." Success in cellular fusion -- as occurs at the moment of conception and when nerve cells exchange neurotransmitters -- requires that a membrane ...
Protein that regulates hormones critical to women's health found in pituitary
Jan 11, 2009 |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have solved the mystery surrounding a "rogue protein" that plays a role in the release of neurotransmitters and hormones in the brain.
Membrane fusion at the synapse: Janus faced synaptotagmin-1 helps to keep the fast pace
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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Imagine a bathtub with two soap bubbles colliding but never fusing. Then you add detergent, and the surface of the water goes flat as the walls of the bubbles collapse and merge.
Seeing a neurotoxin's deadly grip
Dec 13, 2006 |
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Two Howard Hughes Medical Institute research teams working independently have discovered new information about how the botulinum neurotoxin shuts down neurons with deadly efficiency. By providing detailed views ...
Think fast! Scientists unlock nerve speed secret
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Jul 17, 2006 |
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In the second it takes you to read these words, tens of thousands of vesicles in your optic nerves are released in sequence, opening tiny surface pores to pass chemical signals to the next cell down the line, telling your ...
High-Resolution Light Microscope Reveals the Fundamental Mechanisms of Nerve Communication
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Apr 14, 2006 |
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The development of STED microscopy has allowed researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry to image, for the first time, proteins from single synaptic vesicles, answering long-standing ...
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