The primary underlying mechanisms may involve the protective effects of these diets on blood vessels and nerves, as well as their anti-inflammatory and...
Nociceptors are receptors that detect injurious stimuli and are necessary to convey such information from the periphery to the central nervous system....
Neuroscientists at the University of Michigan have identified a thermoreceptor that mediates cold sensing in somatosensory neurons.
GluK2 KO mice are defective...
University of Bath Ph.D. student Alexz Farrall has invented a soft ball that ‘personifies’ breath, expanding and contracting as a person breathes in...
A new review of more than a dozen previous studies with rodent, monkey, and human brain imaging demonstrates that the act of breathing exerts a substantive,...
The newly-discovered neuronal back-up system safeguards metabolic flexibility of neurons to cope with energy demands of electrical signaling, according...
Insects are traditionally thought to respond to noxious stimuli in an inflexible manner, without the ability to modulate their behavior according to context....
In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists from the Queen Mary University of London argue that insects most likely...
In the new research, paleontologists described and illustrated the endocasts (braincases) of six Paleozoic lungfish species from superb 3D fossil material,...
Cell classes are the building blocks for the central nervous system. It is widely believed that major classes of neurons have been identified in the retina,...
Studying mice and samples from multiple sclerosis patients, a research team led by University of Toronto scientists found that gut-derived immunoglobulin-A-(IgA)...
