Endocrine Abstracts

Synapses are the key elements for signal transduction and plasticity in the brain. Despite a relatively large number of assumptions that have been made on the structure of mature cortical synapses in many other animal species, little is known about these structures in human. Hence, synapses in cortical layer 5 (L5), the main recipient layer of thalamocortical efferents, which representing the first station of cortical information processing were investigated structurally and q...