At a chemical synapse, one neuron releases neurotransmitter molecules into a small space (the synaptic cleft) that is adjacent to another neuron. The neurotransmitters are contained within small sacs ...

Their 87-page chapter does an outstanding job of conjuring up the intellectual development of the synapse field ... a chapter by Tom Südhof on the synaptic cleft. As far as I know, there has ...

Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent continuous stimulation of postsynaptic neurons. There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the ...

synaptic plasticity, necessary for motor learning, is seriously affected when either of these kainate receptors is suppressed ...

A structure that allows neurons to communicate with each other. It consists of a presynaptic terminal, synaptic cleft and postsynaptic membrane, where chemical signals are exchanged. These differences ...

Serafini and colleagues provide evidence that neuroligin acts as a trans-neuronal signal to induce presynaptic differentiation at neuron–neuron connections in vitro. To form a synaptic ...

Knockdown studies of synaptic scaffold protein Dsyd-1 and Liprin-α revealed the suppression of synapse formation. Moreover, ...

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