Local Calcium Stores for Neurons to Communicate

Neurons can utilize a supremely localized internal store of calcium for communicating with each other and other cells, reveal researchers. Calcium helps to initiate the secretion of neuropeptides, one class of signaling molecules through which neurons communicate. The study appears in emThe Journal of General Physiology/em. Neuropeptides are released from neurons through a process that-like other secretory events-is triggered primarily by the influx of calcium ...