Sentences with phrase «synapse structures»

Zooming in on the same image even revealed details of minute synapse structures, called boutons, where neurotransmitters are released.

The synapse structure is changed.

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«Microglia contribute to the structure and function of synapse connectivities.»

The lipid type, ceramide, also has a functional role in various signaling pathways and affects synaptic function, although its primary role is not in the synapse, but providing structure in cell membranes.

That prion aggregates until it stops, changing the structure of the synapse in a way that should last for a very long period of time, perhaps decades.»

Memories were made or altered, he proposed, when structures near the synapse changed.

The synapse is the neuronal structure where this chemical connection is formed, and investigators surmise that it is here where learning and memory occur.

Abraham Kupfer describes the three - dimensional structure of supramolecular activation clusters (SMACs), the interface between an antigen presenting cell and a lymphocyte (including key molecules the T cell receptor and the major histocompatibility complex), [i] later coined the immunological synapse and further elucidated by Arash Grakoui, Michael Dustin, Paul Allen, and Andrey Shaw.

We are using now a genetic yeast two - hybrid screen with this biosensor to identify new proteins that are important for the structure and function of the Immunological Synapse.

However, if the cellular structure of a neuron and its synapse should be visualized at the same time from two different plasmids this approach becomes problematic as it reduces the probability that neurons are transfected with both vectors.

For instance, Reinisch collaborated with her department chair and 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine winner James Rothman to solve the crystal structure of complexin, a protein involved in the regulation of SNARE proteins at a neuronal synapse.