CA2 neuron inactivation leads to a severe deficit in social memory, while having little effect on other well-known hippocampal functions such as contextual or spatial memory.

Yang Chen, Shaoqin Hu, Xuanang Wu, Zhenli Xie, Yuan Wang, Bianbian Wang, Xiaopeng Li, Yingmei Pei, Yuhao Gu, Kai Huang, Jingxiao Huo, Anqi Wei, Cheng Bi, Zhe Lu, Qian Song, Huadong Xu, Xinjiang Kang, ...

Exemplary Ca2+ signaling microdomains. Cartoon illustration of various microdomains featured in different types of cells, all being artificially integrated in a hypothetical single cell. (1 ...

August 1, 2006 (Vol. 26, No. 14) Improved Reporting for Agonists and Antagonists of GPCRs and Ion Channels The bivalent ion Ca2+ is a critical second messenger involved in many physiological and […] ...

Lan Ni, Xiaopu Fu, Huan Zhang, Xi Li, Xiang Cai, Panpan Zhang, Lei Liu, Qingwen Wang, Manman Sun, Qian-Wen Wang, Aying Zhang, Zhengguang Zhang, Mingyi Jiang, Abscisic Acid Inhibits Rice Protein ...

The study did not include brains from professional athletes. The scientists focused on a small memory-related brain region called CA2, part of the hippocampus. This region has been shown to accumulate ...

Hard water is the type of water that has high mineral content (in contrast with soft water). Hard water minerals primarily ...

A review by a team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Science highlights the role of mitochondrial Ca 2+ imbalance in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD ...