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... 36 KB (4,250 words) - 19:55, 23 April 2024 |
In the nervous system, a synapse is a structure that permits a neuron (or nerve cell) to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron or to... 34 KB (4,058 words) - 17:16, 8 April 2024 |
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... 72 KB (9,162 words) - 18:21, 12 April 2024 |
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... 149 KB (16,399 words) - 06:09, 21 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (921 words) - 07:42, 8 February 2024 |
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,... 15 KB (1,333 words) - 03:01, 4 April 2024 |
Windows platforms Synapse.org, an open source scientific collaboration platform Chemical synapse, in neurobiology Electrical synapse, in electrophysiology... 3 KB (347 words) - 10:09, 10 June 2021 |
Dendrodendritic synapses are connections between the dendrites of two different neurons. This is in contrast to the more common axodendritic synapse (chemical synapse)... 7 KB (912 words) - 06:11, 7 March 2022 |
synaptic components to the production of activity at the chemical synapse. Tripartite synapses occur at a number of locations in the central nervous system... 6 KB (753 words) - 06:37, 27 April 2024 |
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... 34 KB (4,031 words) - 17:35, 26 March 2024 |
several phenomena underlying synaptic plasticity, the ability of chemical synapses to change their strength. As memories are thought to be encoded by... 61 KB (7,320 words) - 05:18, 12 April 2024 |
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)... 28 KB (3,456 words) - 15:44, 26 April 2024 |
is defined as monosynaptic, referring to the presence of a single chemical synapse. In the case of peripheral muscle reflexes (patellar reflex, achilles... 6 KB (594 words) - 12:01, 19 January 2024 |
signal is the postsynaptic neuron or cell. Synapses can be either electrical or chemical. Electrical synapses are characterized by the formation of gap... 12 KB (1,396 words) - 00:49, 27 February 2024 |
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,... 94 KB (8,335 words) - 23:56, 19 April 2024 |
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... 6 KB (808 words) - 05:31, 4 January 2024 |
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... 6 KB (837 words) - 19:09, 17 September 2022 |
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... 92 KB (10,894 words) - 17:08, 26 April 2024 |
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... 18 KB (2,105 words) - 17:15, 1 December 2023 |
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... 62 KB (6,780 words) - 04:09, 31 March 2024 |
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... 40 KB (4,212 words) - 05:58, 27 March 2024 |
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... 22 KB (2,705 words) - 08:12, 8 January 2024 |
acid which is able to transmit a nerve message across a synapse. Neurotransmitters (chemicals) are packaged into vesicles that cluster beneath the axon... 4 KB (200 words) - 14:48, 15 September 2023 |