video: A movie showing a reconstruction of a Type I cell (grey), a Type II taste cell (green), and a sensory nerve fiber (yellow). The Type II cell has atypical mitochondria (purple) close to the nerve fiber. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 9 May, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.A. Romanov at Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, Russia; and colleagues was titled, "Chemical synapses without synaptic vesicles: Purinergic neurotransmission through a CALHM1 channel-mitochondrial signaling complex." view more
Credit: R.A. Romanov <i>et al., Science Signaling</i> (2018)