A Kobe University research team identified a protein, called “FAM81A,” that has been showing up in the majority of studies on the “postsynaptic density” but has remained uncharacterized so far. In a ...

A research group led by Specially appointed professor, Dr. Tatsuo Suzuki of Shinshu University School of Medicine developed a new purification protocol for Postsynaptic density (PSD) lattice, a core ...

The postsynaptic density (PSD) is a large, dynamic protein assembly that orchestrates the densities and activities of both AMPA-type and NMDA-type glutamate receptors in excitatory synapses. The ...

A protein that appears in postsynaptic protein agglomerations has been found to be crucial to their formation. The Kobe University discovery identifies a new key player for synaptic function and sheds ...

Researchers from Utrecht University have clarified the function of proteins that play a role in signal transmission between neurons. Without these proteins, it is more difficult to pass on nerve ...

Neurons signal to each other throughout the body using a connection called a synapse. While they are very small, they are critically important to how messages are sent in the body and brain. One part ...

A team of scientists from the University of Cologne's Institute of Biochemistry has made a decisive discovery about the molecular basis of synapse formation in the central nervous system. They studied ...