Glutamate plays previously unknown role in neuromuscular development

Monday, September 19, 2016 - 08:01 in Health & Medicine

For decades, scientists thought acetylcholine was the only neurotransmitter responsible for controlling how muscles and nerves are wired together during development. Turns out, they were wrong. Glutamate, the most common neurotransmitter in the brain, is also necessary. Researchers at the University at Buffalo and Johns Hopkins University reported their findings with mice in the Journal […]

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