Sentences with phrase «called calmodulin»

However, once opiate addiction had developed, the scientists observed a functional switch to a separate molecular memory pathway, controlled by a molecule called calmodulin - dependent kinase II or «CaMKII.»

For starters, a key protein called calmodulin, which helps spindles form, failed to bind to the spindles properly.

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Cunningham and her postdoc at the time, Christine Kirvan, found that the antibodies literally bind to human neurons, activating an enzyme called calcium / calmodulin - dependent protein (CaM) kinase II.

When calcium floods a neuron as a memory is formed, it turns on an enzyme called CaMKII (calcium / calmodulin - dependent protein kinase).