Interrupting signals exchanged between tumors and the nervous system could become a critical pillar of cancer care ...

Sleep's role to down-scale glutamate, excitatory, frontal cortical synapses is extended to include an up-scaling of metaplastic LTP potential, in recovery from prolonged waking induced saturation of ...

These include some obvious mechanical activities such as endocytosis, cell motility and membrane resealing, but also others, such as replication and transcription. Taking the motor proteins as an ...

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do ... supporting players detect and respond to neuron damage. Published in Nature Communications ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...

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CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, P. R. China ...

Biologists had long believed that bringing order and organization to the chaos of molecules inside a cell depended on membrane-bound compartments called organelles, such as the mitochondria.

Its latest motor has hit production, giving automakers a small, efficient unit that delivers seamless power and torque for hybrid cars. Horse announced this week that it started production of the ...

really important to maintain any structure which has a membrane," Singh said. Take the electrolyte potassium, for example. It is the most abundant positively charged ion inside cells, but its ...