Molecular lever that regulates neuron signaling may guide treatments for epilepsy, pain and Alzheimer's disease

Neurons transmit accusation to the adjacent compartment by converting electrical signals into chemic signals. A captious measurement successful this process is the influx of calcium ions into the compartment done voltage-gated calcium channels. A probe squad led by Professor Byung Chang Suh of the Department of Brain Sciences has, for the archetypal time, uncovered a molecular mechanics that regulates the N-type voltage-gated calcium transmission (CaV2.2), which plays a captious relation successful neural awesome transmission.