By participating in the microglomerular microcircuit in the Drosophila mushroom body calyx, the anterior paired lateral neuron normalizes odour-evoked representations at the calyx via inhibition proportional to the input strength and localized to the regions where those inputs are positioned.

Cylicin 1 and Cylicin 2 are essential components of the sperm perinuclear theca and their loss results in impaired spermiogenesis and thus in infertility in mice and men.

Capacitance measurements and pH imaging reveal distinct modes of uptake for endocytotic presynaptic membrane and proteins.

Wild-type human recombinant tau protein infused in presynaptic terminals newly assembled microtubules, which sequestered cytosolic dynamins, thereby blocking synaptic vesicle endocytosis and causing activity-dependent rundown of excitatory synaptic transmission in a slice model of mouse brainstem.

The Kv3.3 potassium channel subunit is necessary and sufficient to permit presynaptic location and accelerated repolarisation of the presynaptic action potential, thereby conserving resources and enhancing accuracy of timing information on transmission at the calyx of Held excitatory synapse.

The organization of olfactory projection neurons and their synaptic connectivity with third-order neurons studied along with olfactory responses suggest that the labeled-line design is partially at work in the Drosophila olfactory system.

Protein kinase C brings about post-tetanic potentiation - a temporary increase in synaptic strength due to increased transmitter release - via phosphorylation of a target protein, Munc18-1.

A novel region in the CaV2.1 α1 subunit regulates coupling of synaptic vesicles to CaV2.1 calcium channels, synaptic vesicle release and docking, and the size of the fast and total releasable pools of synaptic vesicles.

Genetic and electrophysiology experiments provide the first direct evidence that protein kinase C is a calcium-sensing protein in post-tetanic potentiation, a form of synaptic plasticity that supports short-term memory.

The analytic theory establishes the general principles of synaptic transmission, enables extraction of microscopic parameters of synaptic fusion machinery from experiments, and links molecular constituents to synaptic function.