How Neurons Autonomously Regulate Their Excitability - Neuroscience News

Summary: The SLK protein plays a key role in neuron excitability and sensitivity, researchers report. Nerve cells can regulate their sensitivity to incoming signals autonomously. A new study led by the University of Bonn has now discovered a mechanism that does just that. The German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior was involved in the work. The results have now been published in the journal Cell Reports.