New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

Sodium action potentials can propagate somatofugally into the dendritic tree of cortical ... laser scanning microscopy 22 (2PLSM) to dendritic [Ca 2+] imaging in the intact brain 23,24.

This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

Researchers at FORTH have developed a new type of artificial neural network (ANN) that incorporates features of biological ...

Scientists have uncovered a crucial pathway that links brain cell activity to the activation of genes responsible for ...

New research on nematodes reveals how glial cells maintain and monitor neuronal dendrites. Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy ...

A breakthrough study published today in the Journal of Neuroscience sheds new light on how brain cells ... in distant dendrites that extend like branches from the trunk of a tree.

A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience sheds new light on how brain cells relay ... located in distant dendrites that extend like branches from the trunk of a tree.

While brain ... tree of life For the study, the team used CRISPR to engineer nematodes with disrupted cilia or altered glial responses, and then tracked glia in-action using fluorescence microscopy.