The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental temperature. A research team has recently demonstrated how temperature can affect ...

Synaptic efficacy is a basic concept in neuroscience for which we have an intuitive definition — the capacity of a presynaptic input to influence postsynaptic output. Similarly, we have an ...

They should also be capable of trans-synaptic signaling and act to redistribute pre- and postsynaptic proteins. A prime example of such an inducer is agrin. A neuron-specific splice variant of ...