Cell Health Adversely Affected By Overexcited Neurons

Neurotransmitters have consequences. They initiate events that are critical to a healthy life, giving us the ability to move, to talk, to breathe, to think. But that’s if the neurotransmitters are getting it right and sending proper signals downstream to muscle cells, neurons or other cells.Now a Northwestern University study reports that a mutation in a transcription factor that controls a neurotransmitter in the nematode C. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Genetics on December 20th, 2007