Neuron Function Synapses Neural synapses are junctions between ... neurotransmitters—signaling molecules that are stored and released from neurons via synaptic vesicles in response to action ...

The paper S.S.H. Wang et al., “Fusion competent synaptic vesicles persist upon active zone disruption and loss of vesicle docking,” Neuron, 91:777-91, 2016. Hair trigger Neurons send each other ...

A neuron-specific splice variant of agrin is ... neuroligin induced accumulation of the characteristic synaptic vesicle proteins synapsin, synaptotagmin and synaptophysin, as well as the synaptic ...

To do this, the synaptic vesicle must dock at the membrane of the presynaptic neuron and dump its content into the synapse, where it moves to particular receptors on the postsynaptic neuron.

Published in the November 2024 issue of Neuron, this breakthrough allows ... impulses induced by the reception of single synaptic vesicles either locally at the synapse or at the cell body.

By influencing calcium homeostasis, local protein synthesis and the endoplasmic reticulum, a small protein called Rab10 emerges as a crucial cytoplasmic regulator of neuropeptide secretion.

have advanced our understanding of the functional and morphological characteristics of synaptic connections between many neuron types. In particular, two important principles have emerged from ...

A new Drosophila collection of Parkinsonism models reveals early synaptic cholinergic projection neuron dysfunction, linking synaptic failure to later dopaminergic decline, highlighting a role for ...

Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to ... back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again.