Surprisingly, GABA is not be involved in initial synapse formation, however, but rather in pruning them back, a process analogous to speed dating. Quite early in its development, the mammalian ...

This model synapse can precisely control a variety of receptors for the neurotransmitter called GABA, which is important in brain chemistry. The research, which will be published in the Journal of ...

First, GABA is initially excitatory. Second, GABA synapses are formed before glutamatergic ones. Third, the excitatory actions of GABA generate a primitive pattern of activity, which helps to ...

Yale researchers used light to probe the actions of the neurotransmitter GABA on single synapses along the branches of a neuron. The work, appearing in the May 10 issue of the journal Science, ...

The team treated cultured hippocampal neurons from one-day-old rat pups with leptin and found that it increased the presence of synapses that signal with the neurotransmitter gamma aminobutyric acid ...

He said neuroscience researchers have long hypothesized that these synapses might form because of a release of GABA and the ...

The neurotransmitters GABA and glycine, on the other hand, transmit an inhibitory message, telling the subsequent cell not to fire. At excitatory synapses, Prof. Takahashi's group has previously ...

A Georgetown University pharmacology and physiology professor gave an overview of “The World of GABA” in the annual Stephen and Mary Krop Lectureship in Pharmacology April 12. Tom Krop said the ...

That much they had anticipated. The unexpected observation was that GABA proved not to be involved in the initial formation of these tentative or "test" synapses, but rather in the essential ...