What are synapses and neurotransmitters

Nerve cells are also called neurons. They are adapted to carry electrical impulses from one place to another. They feature: an axon – a single nerve fibre that carries nerve impulses away from a ...

Information transfer at chemical synapses occurs when vesicles fuse with the plasma membrane and release neurotransmitter. This process is stochastic and its likelihood of occurrence is a crucial ...

A team of scientists in Japan has revealed how excess tau – a key protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease – impairs signaling between neurons in the brains of mice. The study, published recently in ...

A study published June 1 in Nature Communications details how researchers were able to coax excitatory neurons, which are associated with excitatory synapses, to release neurotransmitters usually ...

It’s thought that a single astrocyte may interact with millions of synapses. Astrocytes regulate neurotransmitters and connections between neurons, and they also make up a physical component of ...

Once the neurotransmitter acetylcholine is released into the synapse, it binds (activates) postsynaptic receptor (M 1), thus transmitting a signal from one neuron to the other. The excess ...

As mentioned previously, MAOIs inhibit monoamine oxidase, an enzyme that breaks down neurotransmitters in the synapse. The MAOIs currently available in the United States are phenelzine (Nardil ...

Neurons relay signals to one another by sending neurotransmitters across gaps between them, called synapses. The molecule GABA (short for gamma-amino butyric acid) is one of the most prevalent ...

Where two neurons meet there is a small gap called a synapse. The plasma membranes ... There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed back into the presynaptic ...