{"id":85134,"date":"2018-11-26T09:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/breakthrough-as-molecules-shown-to-air-kiss-when-brain-neurons-attract-each-other"},"modified":"2018-11-26T09:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:22:49","slug":"breakthrough-as-molecules-shown-to-air-kiss-when-brain-neurons-attract-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/breakthrough-as-molecules-shown-to-air-kiss-when-brain-neurons-attract-each-other","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough as molecules shown to \u2018air-kiss\u2019 when brain neurons attract each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-as-molecules-shown-to-air-kiss-when-brain-neurons-attract-each-other2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All brain cells \u2018air-kiss\u2019 before they come together to form a final synaptic relationship, new research by University of Kent scientists has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough study reveals that molecular signaling within the brain operates in a very different way to previously thought, with cells now found to use the same pair of molecules for both distant and close contacts.<\/p>\n<p>The research, by a team led by Professor Yuri Ushkaryov of the University\u2019s Medway School of Pharmacy, may lead to a much better understanding of how neurons send messages to distant parts of the brain or other organs in the body, such as muscle cells.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018-11\/uok-bam112218.php\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018&#45;11\/uok-bam112218.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All brain cells \u2018air-kiss\u2019 before they come together to form a final synaptic relationship, new research by University of Kent scientists has revealed. The breakthrough study reveals that molecular signaling within the brain operates in a very different way to previously thought, with cells now found to use the same pair of molecules for both [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85134","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}