ANIMALS - Researchers find fly receptor neurons able to communicate without synapse connections

(Medical Xpress)-Researchers at Yale University have found that neural receptors in a fly's antenna are able to communicate with one another despite a lack of synaptic connections. They suggest in their paper published in the journal Nature that the communication between the neurons occurs via electrical signals transported by shared fluids.

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