Receptor Clustering: Nothing Succeeds Like Success

Receptor Clustering: Nothing Succeeds Like Success

By experimentally limiting the amount of receptor molecules available in a postsynaptic neuron in Drosophila, it has been shown that receptors can preferentially cluster opposite active zones with a high release probability. This asymmetry in receptor distribution can alter the apparent probability and calcium-dependence of neurotransmitter release.

Presidential address: nothing succeeds like excess.

Nothing Fails Like the Success of Private Enterprise and Freedom

12 The current obesity “crisis” represents a significant triumph for private enterprise and freedom. For the first time in human history, people in most of the world are more worried about the risks of gaining weight than about the risks of starving. But this triumph is being discussed as a crisis which demands government to take action, and that action invariably involves more government restr...

Nothing Hurts Follow-Up like Follow-Up?

Dear EBSJ Readers, First off, some housekeeping notes. Welcome to the new EBSJ, now combined with Global Spine Journal, and our expanded Editor-in-Chief team with Drs. Jeff Wang and Karsten Wiechert. Please welcome on board our newManaging Editor Danielle Lieberman, who has taken on her new role with much appreciated energy. We would like to thank Thea Swanson for her years of faithful service,...

Modern literary interpretation in understanding the meaning of the verse ‘There is nothing like Him’

Numerous views have been expressed by commentators and writers about the literary aspect and the meaning of the Qurchr('39')anic phrase "There is nothing like Him". The sequence of the words "ka" and "like" in the holy verse, has led to two literary and semantic illusions. The literary illusion is that "ka" seems to be redundant and the semantic illusion is the word ‘like’ indirectly proves the...