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    4. Secret, highly active life of nerve cell contacts in the brain revealed
    News | 10/06/2021 | Press Release

    Secret, highly active life of nerve cell contacts in the brain revealed

    Super-resolution STED microscopy for the first time enables the long-term observation of synapses in the healthy and diseased brain. New study by SyNergy member Sabine Liebscher.

    Nerve cells in the brain possess small protrusions, so called dendritic spines, to communicate with other nerve cells by forming a synapse. These contact sites can be both, short- or long-lived thereby existing for even up to an entire lifetime. Short-lived contact sites reflect an ever- adapting brain, which is necessary to process novel experiences. Long-lived, stable contact sites, on the other hand, form the basis of our memory. But even stable memory content can vary to some extent over time. The basis of this process still remains incompletely understood.

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    SyNergy is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) within the framework of the German Excellence Strategy (EXC 2145 SyNergy – ID 390857198). The Excellence Strategy promotes outstanding research at German universities. 

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