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… connections in the brain July 10, 2018 Research Findings Calcium flux, channnels and time to mature are key synapse … formation synapse function synapse assembly synapse calcium calcium imaging https://elifesciences.org/articles/38268 To work at …

… glial cells and that the protein it makes helps to pump calcium ions out of the cells. But that didn’t explain much … cell’s difficulty maintaining a natural ebb and flow of calcium ions would lead adjacent neurons to become too active … Weiss, Littleton and their co-authors found that excess calcium in cortex glia cells causes them to hyper-activate a …

… glutamate release, called active zones (AZs), took in more calcium ions in phasic neurons than tonic ones. A … hypothesizes that this difference could allow for more calcium ions to crowd into the phasic active zones, perhaps … scientists had also found that phasic neurons express a calcium-ion buffering gene >30-fold more than tonic ones. …

… ‘GDspike’ a new option for estimating neural activity from calcium fluorescence multiphoton microscopy Electrophysiology calcium imaging https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8680673 Neurons …

… astrocytes labeled blue also show green staining for calcium and red staining for ChromeQ a new tool for … the team will target different genes related to calcium biochemistry. One tool will give them temporal … control over receptors that the cells use to regulate calcium levels around neurons, for instance to intentionally …

… new study in mice shows. motor cortex astrocytes astrocyte calcium imaging multiphoton microscopy … the motor cortex,” Delepine said. Above: Imaging based on calcium levels in astrocytes demonstrates the effect of the …

… becomes electrically excited enough to send a signal, calcium ions surge into synapses to trigger neurotransmitter … discoveries, Littleton’s lab has shown that the number of calcium channels at release sites determines their strength … one. Flavell has had to invent new technologies (e.g an imaging system capable of tracking every behavior while …