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… astrocytes do signal their activity with increases of calcium. A decade ago in Science , Sur and colleagues used … formation of neural connections called synapses, how the calcium activity arises, and what difference that activity … is first developing. Using sophisticated and precise imaging tools, Sur’s team will monitor astrocyte and neuron …

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

… signals to chemical transmitters requires presynaptic calcium channels that form pores in the cell membrane that … the volume, or change the tune completely. By altering calcium channel function, which can be done using a host of …

… to ourselves?” Above: Wilson lab postdoc Wei Guo, employed calcium imaging of neural activity to show that over the course of … postdoc Jie Zhang debuted a new camera that enables vivid imaging of electrical activity in neurons. Even if remotely, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… manipulation. Finally, Flavell’s team has developed imaging technologies that enable them to track and map neural … 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 …

… To keep constant track of neural activity, as indicated by calcium-triggered flashes of light, the Flavell lab invented … tracking the worms as they move around, thereby constantly imaging the activity of neurons across the worm’s brain, as indicated by calcium-triggered flashes of light. Ji used the scope to …

… authors of the study published June 8 in eLife . A new imaging platform To study how animals coordinate their motor … 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 …