AMPA receptors on cell membrane make us smarter
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 12:00
in Biology & Nature
AMPA receptors are an important regulating factor in the connection between our nerve cells. However, Dutch researcher Helmut Kessels has demonstrated that it is not the amount of AMPA receptors inside the cell that are vitally important but the receptors located on the cell membrane. Changes in the strength of the connections between two nerve cells form the basis of our ability to learn. The results of the research are published in the July issue of Nature Neuroscience...