An excitatory synapse is a synapse in which an action potential in a presynaptic neuron increases the probability of an action potential occurring in...

ionotropic receptors). At excitatory synapses, the ion channel typically allows sodium into the cell, generating an excitatory postsynaptic current. This...

on excitatory and inhibitory synapses. In comparison, post synaptic SAMs are very diverse and are specific for excitatory or inhibitory synapses. The...

chemical or electrical synapse that forms when the axon of one neuron synapses onto dendrites of the same neuron. Excitatory synapse: Enhances the probability...

and a prominent postsynaptic density. Asymmetric synapses are typically excitatory. Symmetric synapses in contrast have flattened or elongated vesicles...

on a Type II synapse.[citation needed] The different locations of Type I and Type II synapses divide a neuron into two zones: an excitatory dendritic tree...

can be used to measure postsynaptic potentials at either excitatory or inhibitory synapses. In general, a postsynaptic potential is dependent on the...

In neuroscience, a silent synapse is an excitatory glutamatergic synapse whose postsynaptic membrane contains NMDA-type glutamate receptors but no AMPA-type...

arousal and orgasm, wherein both play a role. There are inhibitory and excitatory synapses between neurons. A third subsystem of neurons has been named as non-noradrenergic...

excitatory synapses. If a shunting inhibitory synapse is activated, the input resistance is reduced locally. The amplitude of subsequent excitatory postsynaptic...

display excitatory effects. The actual signaling mechanism utilizes Na+ and Ca2+ pumps in a similar manner to those found in axodendritic synapses. In 1966...

maturation of excitatory synaptic inputs) eventually can change the course of synapse formation at dendritic and axonal arbors. This synapse formation is...

dendritic arbors. These parallel fibers form thousands of excitatory granule-cell–Purkinje-cell synapses onto the intermediate and distal dendrites of Purkinje...

of classic excitatory STDP and serve to modulate circuit excitability. Strengthening an inhibitory synapse when it fires after the excitatory neuron can...

The calyx of Held is a particularly large excitatory synapse in the mammalian auditory nervous system, so named after Hans Held who first described it...

between Golgi cells. The main synapse made by these cells is a synapse onto the mossy fibre–granule cell excitatory synapse in a glomerulus. The glomerulus...

reduces the number of excitatory and inhibitory synapses. It is not clear how exactly neurexin promotes the formation of synapses. One possibility is that...

margin the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the vertebrate nervous system. It is used by every major excitatory function in the vertebrate...

called action potentials to its connected neighbors. A neuron can serve an excitatory role, amplifying and propagating signals it receives, or an inhibitory...

of synapses. As synapses form during synaptogenesis, they differentiate into one of two categories: excitatory or inhibitory. Excitatory synapses increase...

degradation of the RhoA GEF Ephexin5 relieves a developmental brake on excitatory synapse formation". Cell. 143 (3): 442–55. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2010.09.038...

deeper-layers pass. These parallel fibers make relatively weaker excitatory (glutamatergic) synapses to spines in the Purkinje cell dendrite, whereas climbing...

2006). "The neuronal excitatory amino acid transporter EAAC1/EAAT3: does it represent a major actor at the brain excitatory synapse?". Journal of Neurochemistry...

prominent LTP researcher, has suggested that LTP may even occur at all excitatory synapses in the mammalian brain. Different areas of the brain exhibit different...

2008). "Gain and fidelity of transmission patterns at cortical excitatory unitary synapses improve spike encoding". Journal of Cell Science. 121 (Pt 17):...

decreased excitatory synapse formation. Her findings showed both the role that astrocyte secreted factors play in specifically excitatory synapse formation...

to any other neuron (including itself) with positive synapses (excitatory) or negative synapses (inhibitory). That is, each neuron can connect to another...

not an action potential will be generated by the combined effects of excitatory and inhibitory signals, both from multiple simultaneous inputs (spatial...

motion and transduce these signals into electrical impulses via excitatory synapses. Lateral lines play an important role in schooling behavior, predation...

a synapse and changes in how effectively cells respond to those neurotransmitters. Synaptic plasticity in both excitatory and inhibitory synapses has...