What is the synaptic system

The plasma membranes of each neuron are in very close contact and are separated by a narrow space called a synaptic cleft. An electrical impulse cannot directly cross the gap so a different ...

This results in enough neurotransmitter being diffused across the synaptic cleft to trigger the impulse in the postsynaptic neuron. This process is called summation.

When a cell gets excited by electrical signals, very fast synaptic vesicle fusion occurs. The neurotransmitters come out of the cell and bind to receptors on the synaptic side. That’s the signal and ...

We then explain some computational approaches that have been used in systems biology and are of particular relevance to modelling synaptic plasticity, and illustrate how these computational ...

Writing in eLife in June 2022, Rizo-Rey and collaborators presented all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of synaptic vesicle fusion, providing a glimpse at the primed state. The research shows a ...

ANSTO health researchers have contributed to an international study published in Nature Neuroscience that sheds light on the mechanism by which anti-anxiety drugs act on the brain which could lead to ...

To achieve this, the brain continually adjusts organization and strength of its neuronal connections, a phenomenon known as `synaptic ... The nervous system must adapt its circuits to a constantly ...

Synaptic communication at neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) occurs at specialized sites called active zones (AZs). The NMJ AZ structure and function represents an ideal model system that has been studied ...

Nevertheless, and this is the second point, there are also present, elsewhere in the system, discontinuous synapses which are perhaps more clear and easy to study than any yet described. This text was ...

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