{"id":165797,"date":"2023-06-15T00:33:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/new-images-capture-unseen-details-of-the-synapse"},"modified":"2023-06-15T00:33:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T05:33:10","slug":"new-images-capture-unseen-details-of-the-synapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/new-images-capture-unseen-details-of-the-synapse","title":{"rendered":"New images capture unseen details of the synapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-images-capture-unseen-details-of-the-synapse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D images of the synapse, the important juncture where neurons communicate with each other through an exchange of chemical signals. These nanometer-scale models will help scientists better understand and study neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington\u2019s disease and schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>The new study appears in the journal <i>PNAS<\/i> and was authored by a team led by Steve Goldman, MD, Ph.D., co-director of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine at the University of Rochester and the University of Copenhagen. The findings represent a significant technical achievement that allows researchers to study the different cells that converge at individual synapses at a level of detail not previously achievable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is one thing to understand the structure of the synapse from the literature, but it is another to see the precise geometry of interactions between <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/individual+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">individual cells<\/a> with your own eyes,\u201d said Abdellatif Benraiss, Ph.D., a research associate professor in the Center for Translational Neuromedicine and co-author of the study. \u201cThe ability to measure these extremely small environments is a young field, and holds the potential to advance our understanding of a number of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases in which synaptic function is disturbed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D images of the synapse, the important juncture where neurons communicate with each other through an exchange of chemical signals. These nanometer-scale models will help scientists better understand and study neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington\u2019s disease and schizophrenia. The new study appears in the journal PNAS and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}