Sunday, August 26, 2012

Video Catches Tiny Brain Proteins on the Move

This is so simple, lets set up videorecording and watch neuroplasticity in action, axon sprouting and dendrite connections. Then we might be able to make a decent hypothesis as to how to enable neuroplasticity after stroke. We know it works, we just have no idea as to how it works or how to duplicate it.  Get your researcher involved.
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By illuminating certain proteins and blocking and unblocking just one of the myriad pathways inside a neuron, a team from the University of Southern California recorded, on video, how proteins shuttle along inside a jellyfish cell (see video after the jump).
The short video shows vesicles carrying the glowing proteins entering both the axon and the dendrite sections of the neuron; when they enter the axon, though, they stop and reverse course, the researchers said.

Video at the link.

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