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… 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 …

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

… of neurotransmitters when triggered by an influx of calcium ions. But even with SYT1 disabled, synapses could … SYT7 they didn’t see major differences in anatomy or calcium influx that could explain how SYT7 works to limit …

… they engineered place cells to glow when they built up calcium ions, a proxy for electrical activity. They saw that …

… of HSN during these behaviors (by tracking the flow of calcium ions within the cell as animals freely moved) and saw …

… Moreover, Flavell’s lab has developed an innovative imaging system that can reliably image the calcium activity of virtually every neuron in real time, even … paradigm for serotonergic function and cutting-edge imaging technologies, we are well positioned to examine how …

… Findings Separating densely packed molecules before imaging allows them to become visible for the first time … Separating densely packed molecules before imaging allows them to become visible for the first time … them to visualize, in detail, “nanocolumns” consisting of calcium channels aligned with other synaptic proteins. These …

… disability. Video from a 2018 Littleton Lab study shows calcium flux (green) indicating the release of glutamate at … that change the amount of key proteins produced. By imaging the proteins as they accumulate and by looking in on … day after day, a technique the lab uses called “intravital imaging,” they can see how changing protein availability …