When two cells "talk" to each other, they often do so through tiny channels called electrical synapses. Unlike chemical ...

Inner hair cells (IHCs) in the cochlea are the mammalian phonoreceptors, transducing sound energy into graded changes in membrane potentials, the so called “receptor potentials.” Ribbon synapses ...

Synaptic connections are made and broken in an activity-dependent manner in diverse regions of the nervous system. However, whether activity is strictly necessary for synapse elimination has not been ...

Like a plug and a socket, a nerve and a muscle fiber mesh at the neuromuscular junction. New work reveals that an extracellular matrix protein called laminin shapes both sides of the junction to ...

Vertebrate lonesome kinase mediates a key interaction between neurons involved in injury-induced pain and helps explain ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a ...

When one nerve cell sends a message to another cell it is usually accomplished by the release of neurotransmitters that affect the electrical properties of the downstream cell. The axon is the part of ...

Every movement and every thought requires the passing of specific information between networks of nerve cells. To improve a skill or to learn something new entails more efficient or a greater number ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a fundamental discovery ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The anatomical mechanisms for processing auditory signals are extremely complex and incompletely understood, despite major advances already ...

Auditory neuropathy impairs speech comprehension severely, beyond the extent that would be expected on the basis of increased threshold of audibility Auditory neuropathy encompasses a range of disease ...