Congratulations to the Sharif Lab for the recent publication of their paper, TACAN Is an Ion Channel Involved in Sensing Mechanical Pain, in the prestigious journal Cell. Their identification of聽a...
On February 23, 2020, Physiology faculty member Dr. Reza Sharif was interviewed about the identification of a pain sensor聽on the Radio-Canada program Les ann茅es lumi猫re (the French-language version...
Physiology graduate student Alexander Kiepas聽was recently interviewed for being聽the first author on 'Optimizing live-cell fluorescence imaging conditions to minimize phototoxicity', published in...
In the developing nervous system, an enormous number and diversity of neurons are precisely organized into neural circuits. How can such a vast set of neural connections be wired using limited cues...
Mutation or disruption of the SHANK3 (SH3 domain and ankyrin repeat) gene at the 22q13.3 locus represents a highly penetrant, monogenic risk-factor for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and is a...
The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematical Society presented the Research Prize to Dr. Leon Glass for his contributions to research, education and community leadership. Click here for details.
Kudos to聽the Prager-Khoutorsky lab聽for publishing聽their first paper, Effects of Salt Loading on the Organization of Microtubules in Rat Magnocellular Vasopressin Neurons,聽in the Journal of...
Fructose is a simple sugar found in fruit and honey, but it is also used as sweeteners via added sugars, syrups, or high fructose corn syrup in processed foods or beverages.3655 promenade Sir...
There has been significant progress over the last decade in understanding the molecular basis by which sensory neurons transduce and subsequently transmit noxious (ie. tissue damaging) stimuli...
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