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Electrical synapses—everywhere, almost unexplored
They are part of the brains of nearly all animals, but are often invisible even under an electron microscope
Neurons communicate through synapses, small points of contact where chemical messengers transmit stimuli from one cell to the next
Electrical synapses connect two neurons directly, allowing the electrical current used by the neurons to communicate from one cell to the other without taking a detour
distribution in the brain
To track these functions, Ammer and two of his colleagues, Renée Vieira and Sandra Fendl, tagged an important protein component of electrical synapses
"The results suggest that electrical synapses are important for different brain functions and, depending on the type of neuron, can play very different functional roles," concludes Ammer