up to 30% off books and ebooks plus free shipping. home books subjects neuroscience the synapse the synapse structure and function 1st edition - november 16, 2013 imprint: academic press editors: virginia m. pickel, menahem segal language: english hardback isbn: 9780124186750 9 7 8 - 0 - 1...
Nevertheless, it remains unknown how the structure of a synapse relates to its physiological transmission strength—a key limitation for inferring brain function from neuronal wiring diagrams. Here we combine slice electrophysiology of synaptically connected pyramidal neurons in the mouse somatosensory ...
THE SYNAPSE: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION (NEUROSCIENCE-NET REFERENCE BOOK)PickelVirginia MSegalMenahem
scaffold of the synaptic ribbon provides a docking site for RIBEYE-associated proteins.Multiple functions have been assigned to synaptic ribbons including roles in exocytosis,endocytosis,and synaptic membrane trafficking.Here is to review the recent progress in structure and function of synaptic ribbons ...
The aim of this review is to introduce the reader toCaenorhabditis elegansas a model system, especially with respect to studies of synapse formation and function. We begin by giving a short description of the structure of the nervous system ofC. elegans. As most of the findings that are revie...
Recent studies have established that members of the intestinal microbiota communicate with the host central nervous system (CNS) and can alter CNS gene expression, neurotransmitter function, and behavior in adult rodents1,2. However, we do not yet fully understand the mechanisms by which gut microbe...
Steroid hormones have wide ranging effects on the structure and function of the nervous system. Androgen receptor function is known to be important for motor neurone survival, and disruption of this function in Kennedy's disease contributes to the motor neurone degeneration seen in this condition [...
Dissociated neuronal cultures are grown from various regions of the embryonic brain, and the resulting monolayers indeed form synapses that resemble the parent brain regions in structure and function. This chapter focuses on the dissociated cultures from rat hippocampus. Asymmetric excitatory synapses in ...
At a chemical synapse each ending, or terminal, of anerve fibre(presynaptic fibre) swells to form a knoblike structure that is separated from the fibre of anadjacentneuron, called a postsynaptic fibre, by a microscopic space called thesynaptic cleft. The typical synapticcleftis about 0.02 micron...
As key regulators of the actin cytoskeleton, the Rho subfamily members of guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-binding proteins play a critical role in synapse formation, maturation, and maintenance, directly affecting both synapse structure and function (Ba et al., 2013, Nadif Kasri and Van Aelst, 2008...