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… arrived did active zones possess the mature structure for calcium ions to trigger the fusion of glutamate vesicles to …

… to ourselves?” Above: Wilson lab postdoc Wei Guo, employed calcium imaging of neural activity to show that over the …

… and flexibility of its nervous system C. elegans behavior calcium imaging … neuron in its head (cells are engineered to flash when calcium ions build up). Reliably distinguishing and tracking …

… their ability to track all neuron activity (based on their calcium fluctuations) and all behaviors to watch how the … neuron was impacted by serotonin. “We performed brain-wide calcium imaging in freely-moving animals with knowledge of …

… the astrocytes’ ability to signal neurons with calcium. This not only undermined the smoothness of the … on astrocytes. It triggers a sustained increase in their calcium levels. That promotes them to release chemicals that …

… see the effects of its absence by visually tracking the calcium activity of neurons, a proxy for their electrical …

… electrically active, an indication provided by a surge of calcium ions. From those flashes they saw that a particular … notes that recently-developed technologies for whole-brain calcium imaging have opened the possibility of measuring …