Abstract The tripartite synapse or “neural threesome” refers to the interplay in between neighbouring neurons, synaptic cleft, and surrounding glial cells. Despite extensive research, effects of cells, such as astrocytes, on signal transduction neurons are not fully understood. Kirchhoff-Nernst- Planck (KNP) Extracellular-Membrane-Intracellular (EMI) models constitute a promising framework for ...

Psychobiotics are defined as the organisms that can provide mental health benefit. The possible mechanism of psychobiotics is manipulation neurotransmitter production and by microbes. lactobacillus group has been reported for potential production, especially g-aminobutyric acid (GABA) which an important inhibitory neurotransmitter. Therefore, GABA be used relaxation applied in various psychiatr...

This review gives an overview of our recent findings and developments in research on brain mechanisms of morphine reward from studies using the place preference conditioning paradigm. Intracranial place conditioning methodology has become a valuable and firmly established and very widely used tool in behavioural pharmacology and drug reward mechanisms. Several studies have established that morp...

This review gives an overview of our recent findings and developments in research on brain mechanisms of morphine reward from studies using the place preference conditioning paradigm. Intracranial place conditioning methodology has become a valuable and firmly established and very widely used tool in behavioural pharmacology and drug reward mechanisms. Several studies have established that morp...

At the heart of synaptic transmission resides the synaptic vesicle cycle – a membrane trafficking pathway in which small membrane-bound vesicles mediate the release of neurotransmitter from presynaptic terminals. The cycle resembles general membrane trafficking and has three phases: vesicle filling, release and recycling. During filling, neurotransmitter is loaded into vesicles via vesicular ne...

Neurotransmitter transporters play essential roles in the process of neurotransmission. Vesicular neurotransmitter transporters mediate storage inside secretory vesicles in a process that involves the exchange of lumenal H(+) for cytoplasmic transmitter. Retrieval of the neurotransmitter from the synaptic cleft catalyzed by sodium-coupled transporters is critical for the termination of the syna...

Neurotransmitter secretion from the nerve terminal is mediated by the fusion of synaptic vesicles with the plasma membrane. It is generally believed that neurotransmitter release in mature synapses is localized to the presynaptic nerve terminals. To probe the topology of neurotransmitter secretion along developing axons in culture, we recorded membrane currents from myocytes manipulated into co...