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Experts studying the human brain have for a long time known that neurons communicate with each other through vesicles no more than a couple of hundred nanometers wide. These vessels transport neurotransmitter molecules, which, when they bind to a neuron, release a series of chemicals that are picked up by the next neuron in line and so on. However, a more detailed knowledge of how this occurs is still unknown, and therefore makes the object of a new study, conducted by experts at the University of Copenhagen, AlphaGalileo informs. “Contact between vesicles and membranes are an essential step in many important biological processes. We can now quantify contact areas formed between vesicles and determine the vesicle size and shape with nano-scale resolution. This helps us characterize the properties of the molecules involved in vesicle-fusion. The new method opens great new prospects for the research of neurological and infectious diseases,†explains Associate Professor !
Dimitrios Stamou, from the university's Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Nano-Science Center. Disruptions that occur in the way these vesicles act can lead to the majority of known mental illnesses, including depression. Therefore, understanding how they work is of paramount importance in devising a new course of t...
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