Seeing is relieving: electrical synapses between visualized neurons.
Two reports of electrical synapses between identified inhibitory neurons in the neocortex suggest that many neuron types known to communicate chemically may also be electrically coupled.
Bennett
M V
MV
Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA. mbennett@aecom.yu.edu
D000818:Animals; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D017629:Gap Junctions / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D019579:Neocortex / Q000502:physiology*; D009433:Neural Inhibition / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology*; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000502:physiology*