Traffic Jams in the Brain (IMAGE)

University at Buffalo

Traffic Jams in the Brain

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Materials move smoothly through the brain cells of a fruit fly larvae (left). But when scientists reduced the levels of the protein presenilin and the enzyme GSK-3B present in the nerve, tiny organic bubbles called vesicles began moving in an uncoordinated fashion and became trapped (right).

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Shermali Gunawardena

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