Your body functions using chemical messages that are directed throughout your system with specific targets. These chemical messages are carried by neurotransmitters, which act as a messenger directing ...

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Scientists have, for the first time, revealed at the atomic level the structure of a protein that carries one of the body's most important neurotransmitters into neurons. In determining the structure ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have drawn on structural biology expertise to determine structures of vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2), a key component of neuronal ...

Nerve cells, also known as neurons, and their neurotransmitters play important roles in this system. Neurotransmitters are the body’s chemical messengers. They are molecules used by the nervous system ...

Copper and amyloid-beta — both products of Alzheimer’s disease — cause an important neurotransmitter in the brain to switch functions. Like other neurotransmitters, the small protein called ...

The brain is an almost inconceivably complex system of billions of neurons interlinked via trillions of connections that work to coordinate everything you do, think, and feel (Zimmer, 2011). This ...

The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. The work was led by Ian Maze, a neuroepigeneticist ...