Molecular neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that examines the molecular structure, function, and development of the nervous system with methods in molecular biology.[1] Molecular biology studies how ribonucleic acid (RNA) derives from deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and how protein derives from RNA. When molecular biology is used in the context of the nervous system is called molecular neuroscience. Molecular neuroscience includes studies of ion channels, receptors, enzymes to understand neural function. Ionotropic receptors, metabotropic receptors, molecular anatomy, nervous system, neurodegenerative disease and neurotransmitter release, signal transduction, synaptic plasticity response, and voltage-gated ion channels are a few of the fields studied by molecular neuroscientists.[2]
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