Basics in Cell Biology and Neurobiology .......................................................................... 251
Lecture 1, Intracellular Compartments and Transport (EssenSal Cell Biology Ch15) ........ 251
Lecture 2, Intracellular Signaling (EssenSal Cell Biology Ch16/ Purves Ch7) ..................... 264
Lecture 3, Protein Structure and FuncSon (EssenSal Cell Biology Ch4) ............................. 279
Lecture 4, Cytoskeleton (EssenSal Cell Biology Ch17) ....................................................... 293
Lecture 5, Neurotransmi\ers and their Receptors (Purves Ch6) ....................................... 303
, Lecture 6, DNA and Chromosomes (EssenSal Cell Biology Ch5) ........................................ 315
Lecture 7, From DNA to Protein: How Cells Read the Genome (EssenSal Cell Biology Ch7)
.......................................................................................................................................... 323
Lecture 8, Synapses (Purves Ch5) ...................................................................................... 335
Lecture 9, Molecular Memory / SynapSc PlasScity (Purves Ch8) ...................................... 349
Methods and Models in Neuroscience ............................................................................ 358
Lecture 1, C. elegans ......................................................................................................... 359
Lecture 2, Yeast ................................................................................................................. 371
Lecture 3, Drosophila ........................................................................................................ 381
Lecture 4, Mouse ............................................................................................................... 388
,Synapse Biology
Most therapies are focused on the protein networks while new therapies also involve gene
networks.
Lecture 1, Chemical Synapses
Learning objecAves:
• Four different types of synapses and their predicted reliability
• SynapAc probability, synapAc failures
• Short lived and long lived changes in synapAc probability
A synapse is a contact point between two neurons or a neuron and another contact point
(muscle). When an electrical signal (acAon potenAal) arrives at the synapse it will be
transmiTed into a chemical signal (which was stored in vesicles). This chemical signal will
cause a new electrical signal at the post-synapse.
, *AcAon potenAals are always the same (invariable) whereas resAng membrane potenAals
can differ among species but also across cells. Also the transmission of the signal has a high
modulaAon component.
Receiving part of a neuron: dendrite
Many synapses fail upon single sAmulaAon
1. A pipeTe was used to sAmulate the axon of an adjacent neuron. This neuron will
acAvate the neuron.
2. Every response you see (increase in the calcium of receiving cell: dendrite), means
the opening of receptors on the receiving site and thus a successful transmission of
the signal.
BUT
3 of 5 Ames the transmission of the signal fails
- Thus, there is a probability that a signal is being transmiTed
- There is a high variability in the transmission of the signalà adapAve capacity of the
brain
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