Electrical Synapses
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Angelman syndrome: current understanding and research prospects.

30 Oct 2009 Angelman syndrome is a neurogenetic disorder characterized by developmental delay, severe intellectual disability, absent speech, exuberant behavior with happy demeanor, motor impairment, and epilepsy, due to deficient UBE3A gene expression that may ... Read more...

Stability of electrical coupling despite massive developmental changes of intrinsic neuronal physiology.

3 Aug 2009 Gap junctions mediate metabolic and electrical interactions between some cells of the CNS. For many types of neurons, gap junction-mediated electrical coupling is most prevalent during early development, then decreases sharply with maturation. ... Read more...

The diverse functional roles and regulation of neuronal gap junctions in the retina.

Jun 2009 Electrical synaptic transmission through gap junctions underlies direct and rapid neuronal communication in the CNS. The diversity of functional roles that electrical synapses have is perhaps best exemplified in the vertebrate retina, in which gap ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Electrical Synapses'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Angelman syndrome: current understanding and research prospects. 30 Oct 2009
• Stability of electrical coupling despite massive developmental changes of intrinsic neuronal physiology. 3 Aug 2009
• The diverse functional roles and regulation of neuronal gap junctions in the retina. Jun 2009
• Fat chance? A high-fat diet may offset the effects of developmental neurotoxicity. 30 May 2009
• Inhibitory regulation of electrically coupled neurons in the inferior olive is mediated by asynchronous release of GABA. 26 May 2009
• Interactions between innexins UNC-7 and UNC-9 mediate electrical synapse specificity in the Caenorhabditis elegans locomotory nervous system. 9 May 2009
• W(sh)/W(sh) c-Kit mutant mice possess interstitial cells of Cajal in the deep muscular plexus layer of the small intestine. 5 May 2009
• HDAC2 negatively regulates memory formation and synaptic plasticity. 5 May 2009
• Network-based activity induced by 4-aminopyridine in rat dorsal horn in vitro is mediated by both chemical and electrical synapses. 7 Apr 2009
• Meclofenamic acid blocks electrical synapses of retinal AII amacrine and on-cone bipolar cells. 9 Mar 2009
• Precise timing in fly motion vision is mediated by fast components of combined graded and spike signals. Mar 2009
• Tracer coupling patterns of the ganglion cell subtypes in the mouse retina. 8 Feb 2009
• Electrical coupling mediates tunable low-frequency oscillations and resonance in the cerebellar Golgi cell network. 13 Jan 2009
• Multiple spike initiation zones in a neuron implicated in learning in the leech: a computational model. 12 Jan 2009
• Electrical synapses: rectification demystified. 11 Jan 2009
• [Synchronization in a model of interacting inferior olive cells with variable electrotonic coupling] 30 Dec 2008
• Electrical coupling of lobula plate tangential cells to a heterolateral motion-sensitive neuron in the fly. 29 Dec 2008
• The neuronal connexin36 interacts with and is phosphorylated by CaMKII in a way similar to CaMKII interaction with glutamate receptors. 16 Dec 2008
• Optical coherence tomography (OCT) reveals depth-resolved dynamics during functional brain activation. 9 Dec 2008
• Molecular mechanism of rectification at identified electrical synapses in the Drosophila giant fiber system. 9 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Electrical Synapses'

Definition: Specialized junctions between NEURONS which connect the cytoplasm of one neuron to another allowing direct passage of an ion current.

Descriptor UI: D054351

Alternative terms: Electrical Synapses; Electrical Synapse; Synapse, Electrical; Synapses, Electrical; Neuronal Gap Junctions; Gap Junction, Neuronal; Junction, Neuronal Gap; Junctions, Neuronal Gap; Neuronal Gap Junction; Electrotonic Synapses; Electrotonic Synapse; Synapse, Electrotonic; Gap Junctions, Neuronal; Synapses, Electrotonic;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; enzymology; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; pathology; physiology; radiation effects; radiography; radionuclide imaging; secretion; ultrastructure; ultrasonography; chemistry; virology; genetics;

Tree Number: A08.850.180; A11.284.149.165.420.471.180; A11.284.149.165.420.780.180;

History Note: 2008