Saturday, 8 March 2025

Cellular structure without a membrane: Researcher discusses how synapses use liquids to create functional separations

The laboratory of Ege Kavalali, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, published a paper in Nature Communications that determined that liquid-liquid phase separation plays a key role within the nanostructure of synapses, and that its disruption affects evoked but not spontaneous neurotransmission.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-03-cellular-membrane-discusses-synapses-liquids.html

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