This influx of calcium at the contact site attracts and activates a kinase called CaMKII, a protein known to be important in ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

If the resistance of the plasma membrane — the load ... seems to be a continuum property of the membrane. Previous models of membrane structure have depicted adhesion as discrete membrane ...

"In science, structure is function," says Lippincott ... In muscle cells, the ER and the plasma membrane – the outer membrane of the cell – meet at periodic contact sites, an arrangement ...

New research details the subcellular structures in neurons that enable signals to be transmitted from where they are received at specific sites on dendrites to the decision-making cell body located ...