Vestibular hair cells (VHCs) harbor synaptic ribbons at their presynaptic ... are not well understood and the possible accompanying morphological changes in the VHC synapses have not yet been ...

By reexamining 3D images used to map the connections between brain cells, researchers are uncovering new information about a small, elusive, and often overlooked cellular appendage.

Addiction causes hundreds of changes in brain anatomy, chemistry, and cell-to-cell signaling, including in the gaps between neurons called synapses ... has flaming red hair and a big laugh ...

Furthermore, no hair cell ablation experiments were conducted to demonstrate ... Also, during maturation, IHCs usually have transient axo-somatic synapses that are not present in mature IHCs. It would ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

Enter SynPull, a new synaptosome imaging method developed by David Klenerman, John Danial, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, England. SynPull combines single-molecule pull-down of ...

Figure 4: Two types of contact made by the ectopic cone–rod bipolar cell synapses. Figure 5: Expression of the G o G protein by rod bipolar cells. Although there are fewer cones in the normal ...

Researchers compared how three antioxidants affected gray hair outcomes in mice: hesperetin, diosmetin, and luteolin, and ...

In particular, T cells assemble the immunological synapse (IS), an adhesive structure that is the site of complex actin network organization and dynamics. As such the T cell synapse provides a ...

Vitamin A helps with healthy cell production and growth, including hair cells. While biotin directly promotes the production of keratin, the combination of biotin and vitamin A in sweet potatoes ...