title: All roads lead to neuroscience: the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
abstract: Numerous metaphors have been employed to describe the achievements of the 2013 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine, James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Südhof, who were honored for "their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells." Most of these metaphors referred to the mundane issue of business logistics, and there is probably no other cell type in which the logistics problem is more pressing than in neurons.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Hermann-Rein-Straße 3, 37075 Göttingen, Germany. Electronic address: brose@em.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Brose
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D009488:Neurosciences; D009613:Nobel Prize