Tracking Traffic in the Divided World of a Nerve Cell
February 20, 2018
February 20, 2018
TROY, New York, Feb. 20 -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute issued the following news:
The split personality of a nerve cell illustrates a puzzle. Nerve cells are divided in two domains - the axon sends signals and the dendrites receive them. Axonal and dendritic proteins embedded in the membrane at either end - called transmembrane proteins - are built in the same cellular factory and travel on the same cellular highway. But for the cell to function property, they must be delivered . . .
The split personality of a nerve cell illustrates a puzzle. Nerve cells are divided in two domains - the axon sends signals and the dendrites receive them. Axonal and dendritic proteins embedded in the membrane at either end - called transmembrane proteins - are built in the same cellular factory and travel on the same cellular highway. But for the cell to function property, they must be delivered . . .