Using cryo-electron tomography, the team was able to visualize synaptic vesicles (SVs) in 3D and confirm a potentially important protein-protein interaction. They also broadened our understanding ...

This tracer binds to a protein uniquely located in synaptic vesicles, enabling precise quantification of synapses across different brain regions. To complement the positron emission tomography ...

This was due to the pausing of the synaptic vesicles responsible for transmitting neural signals in their cells. Once the light source was turned off, the nematodes recovered their movement as if the ...

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