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A multidisciplinary team led by the University of Liège has proposed a unified neuroscientific model explaining the ...

Edward Saltzman, the academic dean at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and an associate professor at both ...

By influencing calcium homeostasis, local protein synthesis and the endoplasmic reticulum, a small protein called Rab10 emerges as a crucial cytoplasmic regulator of neuropeptide secretion.

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A fluorescent probe designed to incorporate a fluorophore into the structure of a neurotransmitter finds activity-dependent heterogeneity in dopamine release at individual synapses ...

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