Sentences with phrase «space between neurons»

This boosts levels of the chemical in the pockets of space between neurons.

Then a chemically modified version of ATP is injected into spaces between neurons.

But it's also possible that the diffusion of neurotransmitter molecules in the cramped and tortuous spaces between neurons would require complex models.

Astrocytes reside throughout the nervous system, filling in the spaces between neurons, the «wires» that pass the system's messages.

The space between neurons is thought to regulate the flow of cerebrospinal fluid and clear metabolites during sleep, among other roles.

DRD4 makes a receptor in the brain less effective in bonding to dopamine, which might explain why Ritalin, which increases the amount of dopamine in the space between neurons, is often helpful in treating the problem.

These include genes encoding receptors for the neurotransmitter dopamine and membrane transporters that mop up neurotransmitter molecules from the spaces between neurons after their signaling is complete.

«Full» vesicles move toward the membrane of the nerve terminal, represented by the overall outline of the figure, where they attach and fuse into the terminal membrane, thereby releasing the transmitter into the space between neurons, the synaptic cleft.

A vesicle is a container made of a lipid membrane from which a neurotransmitter is released into the synaptic cleft — the space between neurons.

Within two months, those derived from the Alzheimer's patients began secreting high levels of amyloid protein, which clumped together in the spaces between neurons, resembling the formation of plaques in a fully formed brain.

The researchers focused in particular on how fluids flow within the glymphatic system or the spaces between neurons.

They are found in the synapses, or spaces between neurons.