European banks have turned to the US dollar market to sell almost $8 billion of bonds that help them boost capital levels. Investors hunting for higher coupons want even more. Sales of the debt ...

The condition is usually caused by mutations in a gene called SMN1, which contains instructions for how to make a protein called survival motor neuron (SMN) protein.This protein is critical for ...

Ketamine has received a Hollywood makeover. It used to be known as a rave drug (street name special K) and cat anesthetic. However, in recent years, some doctors have prescribed ketamine to treat ...

It’s been theorized that ketamine works by blocking a brain receptor called GluN1-2B-2D ... In a paper published in the journal Neuron, Furukawa and postdoc Hyunook Kang prove that GluN1-2B ...

It's been suggested for over a decade that the drug blocks a specific kind of NMDA receptor (NMDAR), called ... In a paper published in the journal Neuron, Furukawa and postdoc Hyunook Kang ...

Early research had suggested that each neuron expresses just one type of receptor, and that all the neurons expressing a particular receptor link to a dedicated olfactory nerve cluster (called a ...

Excessive activation of N-methyl-d-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptors after cerebral ischemia is a key cause of ischemic injury. For a long time, it was generally accepted that calcium influx is a ...

Cx40 (connexin 40) was reported to be a molecular modulator of the renal baroreflex. 6 Connexins are transmembrane gap junction proteins involved in cell-to-cell communication. Renin cell-specific ...

For the majority of neurotransmitters, this occurs in an anterograde fashion, released from the pre-synaptic neuron, they bind to receptors on the post-synaptic neuron to keep the signal going. An ...

Instead, a single odorant will bind to multiple types of odorant receptors, and thus, each olfactory receptor neuron may respond to multiple odorants. So how does the brain encode mixtures of odorants ...