{"id":227332,"date":"2025-12-17T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/observing-synapses-in-action-images-capture-real-time-neurotransmitter-release"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:04:51","slug":"observing-synapses-in-action-images-capture-real-time-neurotransmitter-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/observing-synapses-in-action-images-capture-real-time-neurotransmitter-release","title":{"rendered":"Observing synapses in action: Images capture real-time neurotransmitter release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/observing-synapses-in-action-images-capture-real-time-neurotransmitter-release.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It takes just a few milliseconds: A vesicle, only a few nanometers in size and filled with neurotransmitters, approaches a cell membrane, fuses with it, and releases its chemical messengers into the synaptic cleft\u2014making them available to bind to the next nerve cell.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Professor Christian Rosenmund of Charit\u00e9\u2014Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin has captured this critical moment of brain function in microscopic images. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-67291-6\" target=\"_blank\">describe<\/a> their achievement in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes just a few milliseconds: A vesicle, only a few nanometers in size and filled with neurotransmitters, approaches a cell membrane, fuses with it, and releases its chemical messengers into the synaptic cleft\u2014making them available to bind to the next nerve cell. A team led by Professor Christian Rosenmund of Charit\u00e9\u2014Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin has captured [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227332","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}