The research findings could have wide-reaching implications for our understanding of the interplay between nerves and muscle throughout the body. An international research team led by a uOttawa ...

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In 1921, Otto Loewi woke from a dream with the idea for an experiment that proved nerves communicate using chemicals, not just electricity. By showing that stimulating one frog’s heart released a ...

The idea that the nervous system passes messages from one nerve cell to another only through synapses — the points where the cells link up end to end — is changing. Two studies show how messages can ...

A research team led by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has, for the first time, successfully ...

Oregon Health & Science University researchers have found that certain nerves that play an integral role in the body's "fight or flight" stress response can support pancreatic tumor growth. These ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most dangerous forms of cancer in the world. It often grows silently and is usually discovered only after it has already spread. Because of this, survival rates are ...

“This new intermediate structure, called a primed state, is extremely important because it plays a critical role shaping neuromuscular communication,” says Dr. John Baenziger, senior author of the ...