Texas, Dec. 19 -- : According to a study by the University of Texas Health Science Centre at San Antonio, norepinephrine, a fundamental chemical for brain performance, is locally regulated in a brain region called the visual cortex.
The research has been published in the 'Science Advances Journal'.
"Before our study, research suggested the possibility of local regulation of norepinephrine release, but it had never been directly demonstrated," said study senior author Martin Paukert, MD, assistant professor of cellular and integrative physiology at UT Health San Antonio.
The work of the team, which included Shawn R. Gray, PhD, and Liang Ye, MD, from the Paukert lab and Jing Yong Ye, PhD, from the biomedical engineering department at The U...