Chemical synapses are biological junctions through which neurons' signals can be sent to each other and to non-neuronal cells such as those in muscles...
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In the nervous system, a synapse is a structure that allows a neuron (or nerve cell) to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron or a target...
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at a chemical synapse. In many[specify] animals, electrical synapse-based systems co-exist with chemical synapses. Compared to chemical synapses, electrical...
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from the presynaptic axon terminal into the synaptic cleft, as in a chemical synapse. The excitatory neurotransmitters, the most common of which is glutamate...
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Nervous system (section Neurons and synapses)
neighboring cells through electrical synapses or cause chemicals called neurotransmitters to be released at chemical synapses. A cell that receives a synaptic...
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The squid giant synapse is a chemical synapse found in squid. It is the largest known chemical junction in nature. The squid giant synapse (Fig 1) was first...
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Ephaptic coupling (section Synapses)
distinct from direct communication systems like electrical synapses and chemical synapses. The phrase may refer to the coupling of adjacent (touching)...
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several phenomena underlying synaptic plasticity, the ability of chemical synapses to change their strength. As memories are thought to be encoded by...
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Action potential (section Chemical synapses)
rapid non-chemical-mediated transmission. Rectifying channels ensure that action potentials move only in one direction through an electrical synapse.[citation...
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Dendrodendritic synapses are connections between the dendrites of two different neurons. This is in contrast to the more common axodendritic synapse (chemical synapse)...
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Neuromuscular junction (redirect from Neuromuscular synapse)
A neuromuscular junction (or myoneural junction) is a chemical synapse between a motor neuron and a muscle fiber. It allows the motor neuron to transmit...
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Gap junction (section Electrical and chemical synapses)
nerve synapse) needs to form between two cells before they can grow to form a unidirectional chemical nerve synapse. The chemical nerve synapse is the...
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Outline of the human nervous system (section Synapse)
muscles or glands. Chemical synapse Gap junction Synaptic plasticity Long-term potentiation Neurotransmitter – endogenous chemical that relays, amplifies,...
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Windows platforms Synapse.org, an open source scientific collaboration platform Razer Synapse, a software from Razer Chemical synapse, in neurobiology...
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synaptic components to the production of activity at the chemical synapse. Tripartite synapses occur at a number of locations in the central nervous system...
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is defined as monosynaptic, referring to the presence of a single chemical synapse. In the case of peripheral muscle reflexes (patellar reflex, achilles...
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postsynaptic dendrite or cell body, and travels "backwards" across a chemical synapse to bind to the axon terminal of a presynaptic neuron. Retrograde signals...
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communicate with other cells via synapses, which are specialized connections that commonly use minute amounts of chemical neurotransmitters to pass the electric...
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range of tissues such as the adherens junction of epithelia or the chemical synapse of the neuronal tissue. So far four nectins have been identified in...
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directly to the effector organ skipping both an integration center and a chemical synapse present in the spinal cord reflex. The impulse is limited to a single...
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Cell signaling (redirect from Chemical mediator)
special case of paracrine signaling (for chemical synapses) or juxtacrine signaling (for electrical synapses) between neurons and target cells. Many cell...
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signaling molecule secreted by a neuron to affect another cell across a synapse. The cell receiving the signal, or target cell, may be another neuron,...
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he determined that the complex enzyme cycle was easily disrupted. Chemical synapse Quantal neurotransmitter release End-plate potential List of refugees...
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Postsynaptic potential (category Neural synapse)
changes in the membrane potential of the postsynaptic terminal of a chemical synapse. Postsynaptic potentials are graded potentials, and should not be confused...
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signaling is a form of cell signaling in which a cell secretes a hormone or chemical messenger (called the autocrine agent) that binds to autocrine receptors...
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Tricyclic antidepressants also block reuptake of biogenic amines from the synapse, but may primarily affect serotonin or norepinephrine or both. They typically...
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of chemical synapse that differs both in structure and function from the chemical synapses that connect neurons to each other. Both types of synapses rely...
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and fast pulse. Latrotoxin acts on presynaptic nerve membranes (See Chemical synapse) and through the cell's signalling protein (calcium-independent receptor...
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Hormone (section Chemical classes)
do not matter in relation to sexual organs and behaviors, but that some chemical in the testes being secreted is causing this phenomenon. It was later identified...
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Inhibitory postsynaptic potential (redirect from Inhibitory synapse)
likely to generate an action potential. IPSPs can take place at all chemical synapses, which use the secretion of neurotransmitters to create cell-to-cell...
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