Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 24 (June 16, 2020), pp. 13437-13446 (10 pages) Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGICs) are ...

The PatchXpress® 7000A patch clamp system is an automated electrophysiology workstation that allows users to increase throughput of research quality recordings and to measure ion channel activity from ...

For the first time, researchers identified the function of the CASKIN2 protein, which plays a key role in precise signal transmission between neurons and memory formation in the brain. This study is ...

Instrument Seeks to Advance Ligand-Gated Aspect of Critically Important Field The first decade of the 21st century has delivered an extraordinary range of new technologies with relevance to ...

This is a 3-D computer model of the serotonin 5-HT3 receptor, embedded through a lipid bilayer membrane (horizontal structure with black lines and yellow balls) as it would be naturally in a cell.

Building on more than two decades of research, a study by MIT neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports a new way to treat pathology ...